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

  • Wimbledon (London, England). Borough Council.
Date:
[1941?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The crude death rate is, strictly speaking, not comparable with the figure for England and Vales. In order to provide for this the Registrar-General has introduced an areal comparability factor. This factor, for Wimbledon is 0.84. factor. This factor, for Wimbledon is 0.84. The adjusted death rate for Wimbledon for 1940 is consequently 13.92 per thousand of the population as compared with a figure of 14.3 per thousand for England and Wales. CAUSES OF DEATH. Males Females Total 1. Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers - - - 2. Cerebro-spinal fever 2 1 3 3. Scarlet fever - 1 1 4. Whooping cough — - - 5. Diphtheria — 1 1 6. Tuberculosis of respiratory system 15 6 21 7. Other forms of tuberculosis 1 1 2 8. Syphilitic diseases 4 - 4 9. Influenza 3 7 10 10. Measles - - -mm 11. Acute poliomyelitis & polio- encephalitis 1 - 1 12. Acute infectious encephalitis 15 - 1 13.M Cancer of buccal cavity and esophagus (males only) 3 - 3 13.F Cancer of uterus — 7 7 14. Cancer of stomach and duodenum 8 6 14 15. Cancer of breast — 10 10 16. Cancer of all other sites 36 36 72 17. Diabetes 3 3 6 18. Intra-cranial vascular lesions 30 32 62 19. Heart disease 96 104 200 20. Other diseases of the circulatory system 9 16 25 21. Bronchitis 22 27 49 22. Pneumonia 20 16 36 23. Other respiratory diseases 8 5 13 24. Ulcer of the stomach or duodenum 14 4 18 25. Diarrhœa (under 2 years of age) 3 2 5 26. Appendicitis 2 - 2 27. Other digestive diseases 10 12 22 28. Nephritis 9 12 21 29. Puerperal and post-abortive sepsis - 1 1 30. Other maternal causes - - — 31. Premature birth 3 2 5 32. Congenital malformations, birth injury, infantile disease 7 2 9 33. Suicide 2 7 9 34. Road traffic accidents 6 1 7 35. Other violent causes 61 58 119 36. All other causes 27 42 69 Totals 406 422 828 Over half the total deaths which occurred amongst Wimbledon residents in 1940 were due to cancer, diseases of the heart and circulation, and diseases of the respiratory system. Infantile Mortality. There were twenty-five infant deaths (including transferable deaths) giving an Infantile Mortality Rate of forty-three per thousand live births. In 1939 the figure was twenty-nine per thousand. During 1940 the Infantile Mortality Rate for England and Wales was fifty-five. 5.