HC Deb 21 June 1978 vol 952 cc240-2W
Mr. Carter-Jones

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is now able to list the perinatal and infant mortality rates in 1977 for each area health authority in England.

Mr. Moyle,

pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 9th May 1978; Vol. 949, c. 427], gave the following information

The latest provisional rates for 1977 are as follows:

Perinatal mortality Infant mortality
Stillbirths and deaths under 1 week of age per 1.000 total births Deaths under 1 year of age per L00O live births
North-East Thames 16.1 14.0
Harking and Havering 16.4 15.4
Camden and Islington 161 13.9
City and East London 19.4 18.0
Enfield and Haringey 11.9 11.3
Essex 15.0 12.2
Redbridge and Waltham Forest 18.8 15.1
South-East Thames 16.8 13.1
Bromley 17.8 13.7
fast Sussex 18.3 15.9
Greenwich and Bexley 17.5 12.8
Kent 150 11.4
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 18.5 14.7
South-West Thames 14.6 11.6
Croydon 18.7 16.3
Kingston and Richmond 10.2 7.8
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 15.2 12.8
Surrey 13.8 11.5
West Sussex 15.0 9.6
Wessex 15.5 13.1
Dorset 16.1 13.9
Hampshire 151 12.3
Isle of Wight 12.7 11.8
Wiltshire 16.4 14.8
Oxford 15.0 12.7
Berkshire 14.8 11.2
Buckinghamshire 16.3 13.1
Northamptonshire 16.0 14.5
Oxfordshire 12.8 12.2
South-Western 16.2 12.5
Avon 15.0 12.1
Cornwall and Isle of Scilly 15.0 9.6
Devon 17.1 12.7
Gloucestershire 18.5 12.7
Somerset 15.5 15.4
West Midlands 19.4 15.0
Birmingham 20.3 15.6
Coventry 23.4 16.5
Dudley 22.0 14.6
Hereford and Worcester 15.4 12.3
Salop 19.9 14.6
Sandwell 19.2 17.1
Solihull 17.1 16.4
Staffordshire 19.2 13.8
Walsall 19.9 13.2
Warwickshire 17.6 16.4
Wolverhampton 20.8 21.0
Mersey 18.7 14.4
Cheshire 17.9 13.3
Liverpool 18.6 13.2
St. Helens and Knowsley 22.0 20.1
Sefton 18.5 13.6
Wirral 17.3 12.9
North-Western 18.4 14.9
Bolton 21.3 13.1
Bury 22.5 14.4
Lancashire 17.1 14.4
Manchester 18.2 18.4
Oldham 15.6 13.5
Rochdale 26.6 19.1
Salford 19.7 17.4
Stockport 20.5 15.7
Tameside 15.1 11.1
Trafford 10.4 9.6
Wigan 20.2 14.6