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Wimbledon 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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BIRTH RATES. DEATH RATES. ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY
MATERNAL MORTALITY AND CASS RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES
IN THE YEAR 1962
| Wimbledon | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|
| Rates per 1,000 Home Population. | ||
| Births | ||
| Live Births | 15.85 | 18.0 |
| Still Births | 0.22 | 0.33 |
| 13.781 | 18.1* | |
| Deaths | ||
| All Causes | 11.03 | 11.9 |
| Coronary and arterio- | ||
| sclerotic heart disease | 2.83 | 2.20 |
| Whooping Cough | - | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria | - | 0.00 |
| Tuberculosis - all forms | 0.07 | 0.07 |
| Influenza | 0.07 | 0.07 |
| Smallpox | - | 0.00 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (inclu- | ||
| ding Polioencephalitis) | - | 0.00 |
| Pneumonia | 0.93 | 0.68 |
| Malignant Neoplasm - Lung, | ||
| Bronchus | 0.56 | 0.51 |
| Maternal Mortality | — | 0.35* |
| Rates per 1,000 Live Births | ||
| Deaths | ||
| Infant Deaths (all causes | ||
| under 1 year) | 13.97 | 21.6 |
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis | - | 0.6 |
| under 2 years) | ||
* Per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
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