§ Mrs. Judith Hartasked the Minister of Health if, during the next series of confidential inquiries into maternal deaths, sociological background factors could be noted to provide a basis of comparison with the findings of the Perinatal Mortality Survey concerning the social class of cases at risk.
§ Mr. BraineThe confidential inquiries for the next series (1961–1963) have already been completed, and it would not be possible now to adopt the hon. Lady's suggestion; but figures of maternal deaths by social class for 1959–63 will be published in the 1961 Census Occupational Mortality Supplement, and these will provide some basis of comparison with the 1958 figures used in the Perinatal Mortality Survey.