40. Miss WARDasked the Minister of Health whether he can give comparative figures for the infant death rate in areas adequately supplied with district nurses and those not so supplied, respectively?
§ Sir K. WOODCertain information relating to the adequacy of the district nursing service in the administrative counties, county boroughs, and metropolitan boroughs in England and Wales has recently been published by the Queen's Institute of District Nursing; no other comparative figures are available. The rates of infantile mortality in these areas are given in the Registrar-General's Annual Statistical Review.
§ Sir K. WOODI can hardly answer a question like that without notice, but I think that, generally, it is so.
Miss WARDWould my right hon. Friend consider what to do in the case of the local authorities who have not yet taken advantage of the Poor Law Act?
§ Sir K. WOODThat question is too far from the one on the Paper, which is about the figures.