§ Mr. DAYasked the Minister of Health whether he is in a position to give the number of deaths per 1,000 of the population which have occurred under the head of maternal mortality during the last available periods in the boroughs of Kensington and Southwark, respectively?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe provisional numbers of deaths classified as due to childbirth for the Metropolitan Boroughs of Kensington and Southwark in 1927 amounted respectively to rates of 034 and 049 per 1,000 of the populations of those boroughs. The corresponding rates, according to the more usual calculation per 1,000 live births, were 2.26 and 2.57. respectively.