HC Deb 20 March 1978 vol 946 cc443-4W
Mr. Rose

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the latest figures for stillbirths, infant mortality, neonatal mortality and perinatal mortality per 1,000 live and stillbirths in the North-West Region and England and Wales as a whole, respectively.

Mr. Moyle

Mortality rates for 1976 are as follows:

North-Western Regional Health Authority England and Wales
Stillbirths, per 1,000 total births 9.8 9.7
Infant, deaths under one year of age per 1,000 live births 15.7 14.2
Neo-natal, deaths under four weeks of age per 1,000 live births 10.6 9.7
Peri-natal, stillbirths and deaths under one week of age per 1,000 total births 18.7 17.7