§ Mr. GRIFFITHSasked the Minister of Health whether he has seen a report of a recent meeting of the Market Drayton Nursing, and the Maternity and Infant Welfare Associations, where Dr. Wheatley, the medical officer for Shropshire, alluded to the high infant mortality of Market Drayton, and said that the principal causes of the high rate of infant mortality were bad housing and ignorance, and that the remedies were education and better housing; and whether he will at once publish the report of his own medical woman inspector on Market Drayton, to show what is her view of the causes of, and remedies for, the high infant mortality?
§ Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAINThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the second part, I would refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave on this subject to my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford University (Lord H. Cecil) on the 11th May.
§ Mr. GRIFFITHSasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the infantile mortality per 1,000 births in 1924 in Market Drayton was 91, more than double that of Newport and three times that of Wellington, all small neighbouring towns; what are the infant mortalities of these three towns for the last 10 years and whether the Ministry will without further delay publish the Report made by a medical woman inspector of the Ministry who inspected and reported on the high infant mortality of Market Drayton some months ago
§ Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe answer to the first part of the question is in the2814W affirmative. I will send the hon. Member a statement giving the particulars asked for in the second part. As regards the third part, I would refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave on this subject to my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford University (Lord H. Cecil) on the 11th May.