[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon].

  • Wimbledon (London, England). Borough Council.
Date:
[1939?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sixteen of these notifications were in respect of stillbirths. Of the seven hundred and forty-nine notifications, three hundred and thirty were received from Medical Officers of Health of outside areas, and related to births which had occurred to Wimbledon residents confined outside the Borough. Similarly, eighty-eight confinements occurred in Wimbledon amongst women whose homes were situated in other districts. The net number of notified births belonging to Wimbledon is therefore six hundred and sixty-one. Deaths.—The total number of deaths registered in the district was four hundred and eighty-four (two hundred and four males and two hundred and eighty females), equal to a death rate of 8.24 per thousand of the population. The deaths occurring outside the district, of persons belonging to this Borough, were two hundred and ninety-six, namely:— Kingston and District Hospital ... 98 Nelson Hospital, Merton 28 S.C.C. Sanatorium 2 St. Thomas's Hospital 2 Richmond Institution 12 Brook wood Mental Hospital 9 Others 155 Total 296 The deaths occurring within the district, of persons not belonging thereto were seventy-seven, namely:— Wimbledon Hospital 33 Infectious Diseases Hospital 4 Atkinson Morley Hospital 1 Private Nursing Homes 24 Others 15 Total 77 Taking these figures into consideration, the total number of deaths properly belonging to Wimbledon is seven hundred and three and the crude death rate 11.98 per thousand of the population. The rate for England and Wales for the same period was 11.6 per thousand. 10
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