London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wimbledon 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

This page requires JavaScript

Table: BIRTH RATES. DEATH RATES. ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY.MATERNAL MORTALITY AND CASE RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE YEAR 1961PROVISIONAL FIGURES BASED ON QUARTERLY RETURNS OF REGISTRAR-GENERAL

BIRTH RATES. DEATH RATES. ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY.

MATERNAL MORTALITY AND CASE RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE YEAR 1961

PROVISIONAL FIGURES BASED ON QUARTERLY RETURNS OF REGISTRAR-GENERAL

WimbledonEngland and Wales
Rates per 1,000 Home Population
Births
Live Births15.1817.4
Still Births0.240.30
15.95118.7*
Deaths
All Causes10.3912.0
Coronary and arterio
sclerotic heart disease2.572.07
Whooping Cough–0.00
Diphtheria–0.00
Tuberculosis - all forms0.050.07
Influenza0.050.15
Smallpox––
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis)0.010.00
Pneumonia0.800.65
Malignant Neoplasm - Lung, Bronchus0.960.49
Maternal Mortality–0.33*
Rates per 1,000 Live Births
Deaths
Infant Deaths (all causes under 1 year)14.5721.6
Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years)–0.51

Text

Copy text to clipboard

* Per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
- 5 -