HC Deb 26 November 1953 vol 521 cc76-7W
95. Sir H. Williams

asked the Minister of Health why the infantile mortality statistics for England and Wales, Table 26 of the Annual Abstract of Statistics, do not include the year 1952 while those for Scotland and Northern Ireland do so despite the fact that such statistics appear in Table 27 but with different figures for 1951.

Mr. Iain Macleod

I regret that the infant mortality figures for England and Wales for the year 1952 were accidentally omitted from Table 26. I am not clear what my hon. Friend implies by his reference to different figures for 1951, but the figures in Table 27 are given to the first decimal place because of the amount of detail in the Table, while those in Table 26 are rounded to the nearest whole number for convenience in comparing a long series of years.

96. Sir H. Williams

asked the Minister of Health why, in Table 35 of the Annual Abstract of Statistics, 1953, the deaths in the United Kingdom due to tuber culosis of the respiratory system are given as 17,042 in 1950 and in Table 36 are given as 16,973.

Mr. Iain Macleod

As indicated in the footnotes to the Tables concerned, Table 35 is compiled on the basis of the Sixth Revision of the International List of Causes of Death, while Table 36 is compiled on the basis of the Fifth Revision.