§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the mortality rate, the infant mortality rate, the pre-natal mortality rate per 1,000 427W total births and the maternal mortality rate per 1,000 births in the eight English standard regions.
Standard Region Crude death rate per 1,000 population Infant death rate (deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births) Perinatal death rate (still births and deaths of infants under 1 week of age per 1,000 total live and still births) Maternal death rate (principal and associated maternal causes of death, including abortion per 1,000 live and still births) North … … … 12.6 18 22 0.09 Yorkshire and Humberside … 12.3 19 22 0.10 North West … … … 12.8 19 24 0.07 East Midlands … … 11.2 16 20 0.10 West Midlands … … 10.9 19 24 0.08 East Anglia … … … 11.6 14 18 0.20 South East … … … 11.5 15 19 0.13 South West … … … 12.7 15 19 0.17 The variations in the regional rates in the last column are a reflection of the very small numbers of maternal deaths and little significance should be read into them.