§ Ms PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the perinatal mortality rate for all areas covered by the London implementation group, and the national average, at the latest available date.
§ Mr. SackvillePerinatal mortality rates for health authorities in Greater London are shown in the table.
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Perinatal mortality rate 1992 District health authorities in the Greater London area
(DHAs as at 1 April 1992)
District health authority 1Rate Barnet 6.0 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 9.1 Bexley 6.3 Bloomsbury and Islington 8.0 Bromley 6.4 Camberwell 10.3 City and Hackney 7.1 Croydon 7.2 Ealing 10.7 Enfield 7.2 Greenwich 10.8 Hampstead 7.4 Haringey 9.6 Harrow 7.8 Hillingdon 7.6 Hounslow and Spelthorne 4.5 Kingston and Esher 4.2 Lewisham and North Southwark 10.0 Merton and Sutton 6.6 Newham 10.5 Parkside 8.1 Redbridge 8.0
District health authority 1Rate Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 8.5 Riverside 7.9 Tower Hamlets 9.4 Waltham Forest 11.9 Wandsworth 7.6 West Lambeth 9.6 All Greater London DHAs 8.5 England 7.9 1 Stillbirths and deaths under one week combined per 1,000 total live plus still births. Source: Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.