HC Deb 25 February 1954 vol 524 c45W
75. Sir H. Williams

asked the Minister of Health the infantile mortality per 1,000 live births in England and Wales for 1953 and also for the county borough of Croydon.

Miss Hornsby-Smith

The provisional infant mortality rate for England and Wales in 1953 was 27. The rate for the county borough of Croydon in 1953 is not yet available. The rate for Croydon in 1952 was 20 per thousand live births compared with 28 in the whole of England and Wales.