HC Deb 06 July 1977 vol 934 c553W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the rate of infant mortality in the area covered by the Macclesfield constituency in the most recent year for which figures are available; and how this figure compares with the previous four years.

Mr. Moyle

The infant mortality rates —deaths of children under one year of age per thousand live births—for the area in question are as follows:

1971 10.6
1972 10.2
1973 17.0
1974 18.8
1975 11.1