Births and Infant Mortality

HC Deb 29 June 1978 vol 952 cc668-71W

Mr. Carter-Jones

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list for each area health authority in the last year for which figures are available the total number of births under 2,000 grams, the percentage this represented of all births and the stillbirth, perinatal and infant mortality rates of babies born weighing less than 2,000 grams.

Mr. Moyle

The latest information on the birthweight category 2,000 grams or less is for the year 1976 and is listed below for each area health authority in England. Figures on the infant mortality rates by birthweight category are not available.

The stillbirth rates and the perinatal mortality—comprising still births and deaths in the first week of life—rates are expressed as a percentage of total (live and still) births of 2,000 grams or less.

BABIES BORN IN 1976 WEIGHING 2,000 GRAMS AND UNDER
Total live and still births
	Number	Percentage of live and still births all weights	Still births per cent.	Perinatal mortality rate per cent.
Doncaster	92	2.5	17	40
Rotherham	93	3.0	19	24
Sheffield	134	2.4	22	43
East Anglian R.H.A.
Cambridgeshire	148	2.1	18	35
Norfolk	158	1.8	22	38
Suffolk	121	1.9	13	30
North West Thames R.H.A.
Bedfordshire	141	2.0	21	43
Hertfordshire	266	2.4	21	38
Barnet	82	2.2	13	26
Brent/Harrow	159	2.7	23	38
Ealing/Hammersmith and Hounslow	260	3.3	17	30
Hillingdon	62	2.3	16	37
Kensington/Chelsea and
Westminster	110	2.7	11	30
North East Thames R.H.A.
Essex	352	2.0	24	41
Barking/Havering	98	2.1	18	43
Camden/Islington	94	2.4	9	25
City/Hackney/Newham and Tower
Hamlet	241	2.9	19	34
Enfield/Haringey	139	2.4	21	34
Redbridge/Waltham Forest	119	2.2	18	31
South East Thames R.H.A.
East Sussex	116	2.0	28	49
Kent	423	2.3	18	29
Bexley/Greenwich	131	2.5	15	26
Bromley	54	1.8	19	37
Lambeth/Lewisham and Southwark	246	2.7	18	33
South West Thames R.H.A.
Surrey	207	1.6	19	38
West Sussex	129	2.0	16	33
Croydon	96	2.5	16	33
Kingston/Richmond	52	2.0	21	39
Merton/Sutton and Wandsworth	190	2.4	17	32
Wessex R.H.A.
Dorset	85	1.6	28	37
Hampshire	330	2.1	16	32
Wiltshire	243	2.7	18	35
Isle of Wight	28	2.5	32	54
Oxford R.H.A.
Berkshire	193	2.1	12	30
Buckinghamshire	108	1.6	21	46
Northamptonshire	151	2.2	19	34
Oxfordshire	134	2.2	13	25
South Western R.H.A.
Avon	215	2.3	18	36
Cornwall/Isle of Scilly	109	2.5	21	44
Devon	188	1.9	19	39
Gloucestershire	120	2.1	18	30
Somerset	87	2.2	16	32
West Midlands R.H.A.
Hereford and Worcester	167	2.4	22	47
Salop	132	3.0	27	49
Staffordshire	315	2.6	21	41
Warwickshire	140	2.4	25	50
Birmingham	422	3.1	20	39
Coventry	116	2.9	17	32
Dudley	84	2.4	32	51
Sandwell	108	2.9	21	44
Solihull	34	1.4	27	29
Walsall	77	2.3	25	44
Wolverhampton	96	2.8	22	43

BABIES BORN IN 1976 WEIGHING 2,000 GRAMS AND UNDER
Total live and still births
			Number	Percentage of live and still births all weights	Still births per cent.	Perinatal mortality rate per cent.
Mersey R.H.A.
Cheshire	…	…	117	1.1	9	27
Liverpool	…	…	205	3.2	23	40
St. Helens/Knowsley	…	…	133	2.5	28	48
Sefton	…	…	79	2.3	25	42
Wirral	…	…	56	1.3	4	14
North Western R.H.A.
Lancashire	…	…	396	2.5	19	40
Bolton	…	…	92	2.7	17	44
Bury	…	…	39	1.7	15	36
Manchester	…	…	181	3.1	24	41
Oldham	…	…	66	2.3	21	34
Rochdale	…	…	76	2.8	15	25
Salford	…	…	60	2.1	18	50
Stockport	…	…	70	2.0	23	43
Tameside	…	…	61	2.0	23	38
Trafford	…	…	51	2.0	14	37
Wigan	…	…	95	2.3	21	34
England	…	…	12,846	2.3	20	37