HC Deb 23 February 1971 vol 812 c92W
89. Mr. James Johnson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what studies, and in what areas, he has ordered in finding causes of cot deaths in infancy.

Mr. Alison

As I explained in my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dame Joan Vickers) on 25th January, the findings of two large-scale studies commissioned by my Department into sudden deaths in infancy (1965) and post-neonatal mortality (1970) are being supplemented by similar locally-based surveys.—[Vol. 809, c.50].