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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 0.28.
The following table sets out the number of deaths and death rates per
thousand total live and stillbirths for 1963:-
Number of
Deaths Rate
ENGLAND AND WALES
Maternal causes, excluding abortion 195 0.22
Due to abortion 49 0.06
Total maternal mortality 244 0.28
The estimated mid-1963 female population for England and Wales age
15 - 44 was 9,371,200.
As stated there were no maternal deaths in Wimbledon during 1963.
INFANTILE MORTALITY
During 1963 there were 25 deaths among infants under one year of age,
compared with 13 in 1962, and an average of 17 in the last five years.
One of the deaths was in respect of an illegitimate child.
The resultant infant mortality rate for Wimbledon per thousand live
births was 26.28 compared with 13.97, 14.57, 19.20 and 23.64 in the previous
four years. The infant mortality rate for England and Wales in 1963 was
21.1 the lowest figure ever recorded.
Nine of the 25 deaths were due to prematurity and atelectasis, 5 were
due to congenital defects or birth injuries and 6 deaths were due to
pneumonia. One child died from congenital heart disease, one, who was a
mongol, from heart failure, one from acute asthma and another from
tonsillar sarcoma. The remaining death was due to haemophilous influenzal
meningitis.
The number of neo-natal deaths (i.e. those occurring during the first
four weeks of life) was 16, giving a neo-natal death rate of 16.8 per
thousand live births, as compared with a rate of 14.2 for England and Wales.
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