[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon].
- Wimbledon (London, England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- [1959]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The following table sets out the number of deaths and death rates per thousand total live and stillbirths for 1958:— ] Number of Deaths Rate England and Wales Maternal causes, excluding abortion 263 0.35 Due to abortion 63 0.08 Total maternal mortality 326 0.43 Wimbledon Maternal causes, excluding abortion 1 1.29 Due to abortion Nil Nil Total maternal mortality 1 1.29 The estimated mid-1958 female population for England and Wales age 15-44 was 9,016,000. INFANTILE MORTALITY. During 1958 there were 15 deaths among infants under one year, compared with 9 in 1957 and an average of 14 in the last ten years. None of the deaths was in respect of an illegitimate child. The resultant infant mortality rate for Wimbledon per thousand live births was 18.89. The infant mortality rate for England and Wales in 1958 was the low record of 22.6, the lowest previously recorded being 23.1 in 1957. Six of the deaths were due to congenital defects or birth injuries and four due to prematurity. Three children died from atelectasis (that is failure of lungs to expand at birth) and there was one death from pneumonia. The cause of death in the remaining case was certified as haemolytic disease of the newborn. The number of neo-natal deaths (i.e. those occurring during the first four weeks of life) was 12, giving a neo-natal death rate of 15.1 per thousand live births, as compared with a rate of 16.2 for England and Wales. The following table shows the causes of the 15 deaths which occurred during 1958, together with the age at death. 10](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b19877420_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
