§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether there has been any recent change in the relative mortality rates of children between the age 325W of one month and one year of unskilled manual workers compared with professional families of social classes 3 to 1.
Post-neonatal mortality rates Social Class* 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 I—Professional occupations 3.0 2.6 2.9 3.0 3.3 3.2 II—Intermediate occupations 3.3 2.8 3.0 3.1 2.8 3.1 IIIN—Non-manual skilled occupations 3.5 3.1 3.2 3.2 2.6 3.4 IIIM—Manual skilled occupations 4.4 4.0 3.7 4.2 3.9 3.5 IV—Partly skilled occupations 5.7 5.1 5.0 4.3 5.2 4.8 V—Unskilled occupations 8.7 8.4 8.0 7.1 8.1 6.2 Others† 7.5 8.8 8.7 8.9 9.0 8.1 Total 4.6 4.1 4.0 4.1 4.1 3.9 * 1975–78 data were classified according to the 1970 classification of occupations and are not directly comparable with 1979 and 1980 data which were classified to the 1980 classification of occupations. † Others: includes residual groups, not assigned to social classes I to V.