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Beddington and Wallington 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beddington and Wallington]
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stillbirth rate of 38.93 per 1,000 total births and 0.52 per 1,000 total
population.
Deaths. The Registrar-General gives the number of deaths registered
as 306, of which 150 were males and 156 were females.
Taking the estimated population figure of 30,590, the crude death
rate for 1937 is 10.0 per thousand, compared with 9.9 for 1936. The
corresponding figures for England and Wales for 1937 and 1936 are 12.4
and 12.1 respectively.
The corrected death rate, i.e., the rate which would be arrived at
if the age and sex constitution of the population of Beddington and
Wallington was in the same proportion as the country as a whole, is
9.8.
The Registrar-General's comparability factor for the adjustment
of the death rate of Beddington and Wallington is 0.98.
The birth and death rates for the Wards of the Borough are given below: —
| Ward. | Population (Estimated). | Live births. | Birth rate. | Deaths. | Death rate (crude). |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beddington : | |||||
| North | 7387 | 117 | 15.8 | 65 | 8.8 |
| Central | 4799 | 64 | 13.3 | 40 | 8.3 |
| South | 4781 | 43 | 9.0 | 54 | 11.3 |
| Wallington : | |||||
| North | 5915 | 86 | 14.5 | 42 | 7.1 |
| Central | 4897 | 64 | 13.1 | 75 | 15.3 |
| South | 2810 | 21 | 7.5 | 30 | 10.7 |
| The Borough: | 30590 | 395 | 12.9 | 306 | 10.0 |
REGISTERED CAUSES OF DEATH.
The following table, supplied by the Registrar-General, gives the
causes of deaths of residents in the Borough during 1937, and the next
table the birth rate, general death rate, and the death rate for certain
specified causes for the country as a whole, and for certain groups of
the population, together with figures for notifiable infectious diseases.
The rates for the Borough have also been included in this table for
comparison purposes: —
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