HC Deb 22 November 1978 vol 958 cc634-5W
Mr. Frank R. white

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the latest for Social Services what is the latest perinatal death rate; what significant changes have taken place in this death rate over the past 20 years; and how this current rate compares with other European counies over the same period.

Mr. Moyle

The perintal mortality rates tabulated below have been obtained in the main from WHO and UN publications and show the numbers of sillbirths

1955 1975 Percentage Decrease
Sweden 28.4 11.0 61
Denmark 33.9 13.4 60
Switzerland 30.9 13.5 56
Germany, Federal Republic 44.2 19.4 56
Finland 30.0 13.9 (1974) 54
Netherlands 29.3 14.0 52
Scotland 42.1 21.3 49
Italy 47.5 24.1 49
England and Wales 38.3 19.5 49
Austria 40.5 21.3 47
Rumania 32.8 17.9 45
Norway 25.9 14.2 45
Belgium 34.4 (1957) 19.7 43
France 34.0 19.5 (1974) 43
Bulgaria 29.6 17.6 41
Poland 31.5(1956) 19.6 38
Portugal 48.3 31.8 34
Iceland 22.8 (1956) 15.7 31
Yugoslavia 31.8 21.9 31
Czechoslovakia 24.8 20.0 (1974) 19
Hungary 38.7 31.6 18
Increase
Greece 23.4(1956) 25.8 10