HC Deb 21 October 1941 vol 374 cc1629-30
60. Mr. Moelwyn Hughes

(for Mr. J. Griffiths) asked the Minister of Health the mortality rate from tuberculosis in Wales among females, in the age-groups 15 to 20 years and 20 to 25 years respectively, in the past five years?

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Horsbrugh)

The death-rate per million female population in Wales between the ages 15 and 25 was as follows: —

1935 1,749
1936 1,737
1937 1,566
1938 1,423
1939 1,454
Figures are not prepared for the separate age-groups 15 to 20 and 20 to 25; the corresponding 1940 record is not yet available.

Mr. Hughes

Is my hon. Friend satisfied that there has been no increase in deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis in these groups in Wales during the last year?

Miss Horsbrugh

The provisional figures for England and Wales as a whole have been given in reply to a Question. The whole subject, I think, will come up in the Debate on the Adjournment to-day.

Dr. Edith Summerskill

Are these figures related to the under-payment of women in industry?

Miss Horsbrugh

Suggestions as to the reasons will perhaps come up in the Debate to-day.