§ MR. RIDSDALE (Brighton)To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he can give the figures of infant mortality for each year since 1900 in the boroughs of Battersea, Lambeth, Woolwich, Bradford, Burnley, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Dukinfield, and since 1897 for the boroughs of Liverpool and St. Helens.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) The following table gives the particulars desired:—
| Name of Borough, | Year. | Deaths of Infants. | |
| Number. | Per thousand births. | ||
| Woolwich—continued. | 1903 | 390 | 106 |
| 1904 | 466 | 132 | |
| 1905 | 364 | 103 | |
| 1900 | 388 | 109 | |
| Bradford | 1900 | 945 | 141 |
| 1901 | 1,085 | 168 | |
| 1902 | 911 | 139 | |
| 1903 | 974 | 148 | |
| 1904 | 1,048 | 1(57 | |
| 1905 | 873 | 144 | |
| 1906 | 904 | 152 | |
| Burnley | 1900 | 611 | 209 |
| 1901 | 609 | 207 | |
| 1902 | 511 | 176 | |
| 1903 | 586 | 216 | |
| 1904 | 625 | 233 | |
| 1905 | 465 | 174 | |
| 1906 | 612 | 215 | |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 1900 | 225 | 182 |
| 1901 | 201 | 182 | |
| 1902 | 179 | 146 | |
| 1903 | 238 | 205 | |
| 1904 | 207 | 172 | |
| 1905 | 212 | 179 | |
| 1906 | 183 | 153 |
| Name of Borough. | Year. | Deaths of Infants. | |
| Number. | Per thousand births. | ||
| Dukinfield | 1900 | 138 | 238 |
| 1901 | 135 | 275 | |
| 1902 | 100 | 182 | |
| 1903 | 103 | 188 | |
| 1904 | 96 | 198 | |
| 1905 | 91 | 196 | |
| 1906 | 91 | 176 | |
| Liverpool | 1897 | 4,488 | 201 |
| 1898 | 4,111 | 184 | |
| 1899 | 4,481 | 199 | |
| 1900 | 4,247 | 186 | |
| 1901 | 4,138 | 188 | |
| 1902 | 3,936 | 162 | |
| 1903 | 3,815 | 159 | |
| 1904 | 4,780 | 196 | |
| 1905 | 3,762 | 154 | |
| 1906 | 4,145 | 172 | |
| St. Helens | 1897 | 578 | 181 |
| 1898 | 566 | 172 | |
| 1899 | 492 | 157 | |
| 1900 | 584 | 188 | |
| 1901 | 550 | 175 | |
| 1902 | 541 | 167 | |
| 1903 | 475 | 138 | |
| 1904 | 578 | 174 | |
| 1905 | 430 | 132 | |
| 1906 | 489 | 158 |