§ 27. Miss LAWRENCEasked the Minister of Health the comparative figures of infant mortality for West and East Ham for the quarters ended, respectively, 30th June, 1926, and 30th June, 1927?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe provisional figures asked for by the hon. Member for the 13 weeks ending 3rd July, 1926, and 2nd July, 1927, are 45 and 57 and 40 and 47 per 1,000 for West Ham and East Ham, respectively. The figures for the separate months making up the period are—for West Ham 59, 46 and 32 in April, May and June, 1926, and 75, 54 and 44 in the same months of 1927; for East Ham, 25, 61 and 35 in 1926, and 100, 26 and 16 in 1927.