§ Mr. J. Griffithsasked the Minister of Health in which counties and county boroughs in Wales and Monmouthshire the maternal and infantile rates of mortality are above the average rates for England and Wales as a whole; and if he will give comparative figures for each such area.
§ Miss PittThe rates of infant mortality in the five years 1955–59 were above the average for England and Wales in all counties and county boroughs of Wales and Monmouthshire except Radnorshire. The figures (per thousand live births) were as follows:
England and Wales 23.2 Cardiff C.B. 26.5 Merthyr Tydfil C.B. 35.6 Newport C.B. 30.3 Swansea C.B. 27.9 Administrative Counties:— Anglesey 24.7 Brecknockshire 24.0 Caernarvonshire 24.4 Cardiganshire 26.3 Carmarthenshire 29.3 Denbighshire 25.4 Flintshire 25.4 Glamorganshire 30.4 Merionethshire 23.4 Monmouthshire 29.3 Montgomeryshire 24.3 Pembrokeshire 27.3 Maternal deaths were too few for any reliable comparison between individual counties and county boroughs, but the 98W rate in the four county boroughs and the counties of Brecknockshire, Carmarthenshire, Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire was 6.6 per 10,000 births, compared with 6.9 in the rest of Wales and 4.7 in England and Wales.