HC Deb 12 July 1938 vol 338 c1124W
Mr. Sanders

asked the Minister of Health whether he can give the names of the countries with a lower maternity mortality rate than that of Great Britain?

Mr. Elliot

The figures in the following table (which, except where otherwise shown, are for the year 1935) are taken from the League of Nations Annual Epidemiological Report for 1935.

I would add, however, that the comparability of the published rates of maternal mortality is affected by many factors (for example, differences in methods of classification and in completeness of national arrangements for the collection of vital statistics), and that the impression produced by international comparisons is not necessarily an accurate one.