HL Deb 18 December 1953 vol 185 cc259-60WA
LORD KERSHAW

asked Her Majesty's Government what were:

  1. 1. The sickness rates of insured men and insured women respectively;
  2. 2. The Maternal Mortality rates; and
  3. 3. The Infant Mortality rates;
for the years 1938. 1948 and for the latest complete year for which such rates are available.

THE EARL OF BIRKENHEAD

The following tables give the available information:

1. The figures in this table are for Great Britain and represent the number of weeks for which sickness benefit was payable per employed person under pensionable age insured for sickness benefit. These figures relate only to incapacitating sickness ranking for benefit:

Year Men Women
1949 2.0 —
1950 2.0 2.9
1951 2.1 2.8

No comparable figures are available for 1938 or 1948, or for women in 1949.

2. Maternal Mortality rate per 1.000 total births.

Year England and Wales Scotland
1938 3.24 4.9
1948 1.02 1.60
1952 0.72 1.02

3. Infant Mortality rate per 1,000 related live births.

Year England and Wales Scotland
1938 53 69.5
1948 34 44.7
1952 28 35.2

House adjourned at seventeen minutes past eleven o'clock