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Wimbledon 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Birth Rates, Death Rates, Analysis of Mortality,
Maternal Mortality and Case Rates for Certain Infectious Diseases
in the Year 1958.
Provisional Figures Based on Quarterly Returns of Registrar-General.
| Wimbledon | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|
| Rates per 1,000 Home Population | ||
| Live Births | 13.24 | 16.4 |
| Still Births | 0.36 | 0.36 |
| 25.76* | 21.52* | |
| All Causes | 9.89 | 11.7 |
| Coronary and arteriosclerotic heart disease | 2.26 | 1.86 |
| Whooping Cough | — | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria | — | 0.00 |
| Tuberculosis - all forms | 0.03 | 0.10 |
| Influenza | — | 0.05 |
| Smallpox | — | 0.03 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) | — | 0.00 |
| Pneumonia | 0.45 | 0.54 |
| Malignant Neoplasm - Lung, Bronchus | 0.50 | 0.44 |
| Maternal Mortality | 1.29* | 0.43* |
| Scarlet Fever | 1.39 | 0.86 |
| Whooping Cough | 0.17 | 0.74 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever | 0.02 | 0.00 |
| Meningococcal Infection | — | 0.01 |
| Acute Encephalitis | — | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria | _ | 0.00 |
| Erysipelas | 0.52 | 0.07 |
| Smallpox | _ | 0.00 |
| Measles | 2.33 | 5.74 |
| Pneumonia | 0.43 | 0.49 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis — Paralytic | 0.02 | 0.03 |
| Non-paralytic | _ | 0.13 |
| Food Poisoning | 0.14 | 0.19 |
| Dysentery | 0.42 | 0.84 |
| Tuberculosis — Pulmonary | 0.43 | 0.58 |
| Non-pulmonary | 0.02 | 0.77 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 23.31* | 14.26* |
| 18 89 | 22.6 | |
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) | — | 0.5 |
* Per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
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