HC Deb 20 July 1937 vol 326 cc1998-9W
Mr. David Adams

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can give any figure showing how far the mortality among infants and children in Barbados has improved since the West Indian Sugar Commission of 1930 reported on the starvation of infants prevailing in that Colony?

Mr. Ormsby-Gore

I regret that the infant mortality rate in Barbados, which was 251 per 1,000 in 1930, showed only a slight improvement in 1935, when it was 220 per 1,000.

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