Thrombosis (Deaths of Women)

HC Deb 07 March 1967 vol 742 c260W

Mr. Rowland

asked the Minister of Health what was the recorded number of deaths of women of fertile age attributable to thrombosis in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available

Mr. K. Robinson

Deaths of women aged 15 to 49 in which a thromboembolic condition^* was assigned as the underlying cause of death:

ENGLAND AND WALES 1956–1965
			Numbers	Rates per million women aged 15–40
1956	…	…	732	68
1957	…	…	728	68
1958	…	…	806	75
1959	…	…	738	69
1960	…	…	771	72
1961	…	…	778	72
1962	…	…	860	79
1963	…	…	901	83
1964	…	…	951	87
1965	…	…	978	89

The increase in the rates for women over the period was 31 per cent compared with an increase of nearly 36 per cent among men in the same age group.

^* International classification of Diseases Numbers 332, 420, 463, 464, 465, 466 and 570.2.