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MATERNAL MORTALITY
No deaths in childbirth, either from puerperal sepsis or other maternal
causes, were recorded during the year.
The maternal mortality rate for England and Wales per thousand live and
still births was 0.35.

The estimated mid-1962 female population for England and Wales age
15-44 was 9,235,000.
As stated there were no maternal deaths in Wimbledon during 1962.
INFANTILE MORTALITY
During 1962 there were 13 deaths among infants under one year of age,
the same number as in 1961. This compares with an average of 16 in the last
five years. Two of the deaths were in respect of illegitimate children.
The resultant infant mortality rate for Wimbledon per thousand live
births was 13.97 compared with 14.57, 19.20, 23.64 and 18.89 in the previous
four year8. The infant mortality rate for England and Wales in 1962 was
21.6 the same rate as in 1961 when the lowest figure ever was recorded.
Seven of the 13 deaths were due to prematurity and atelectasis, 3 were
due to congenital defects or birth injuries and 2 deaths were due to pneumonia
One child died as the result of a collapse of a lung secondary to an operation
for removal of lymposarcoma.
The number of neo-natal deaths (i.e. those occurring during the first
four weeks of life) was 10, giving a neo-natal death rate of 10.7 per
thousand live births, as compared with a rate of 15.1 for England and Wales.
The perinatal death rate (i.e. stillbirths and deaths of infants under
1 week) was 23.3 per thousand live and stillbirths, while that for England
and Wales was 30.8.
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