§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what were the perinatal and infant mortality rates for England in 1979 and the first half of 1980, by region and area health authority.
§ Sir George YoungThe final figures for 1979 are in the following table. Figures for the first half of 1980 are not available.
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Area Infant death rate per 1,000 live births Perinatal death rate per 1,000 total births England 12.8 14.6 Regional and area health authority Northern 13.3 16.4 Cleveland 14.2 16.2 Cumbria 14.3 16.2 Durham 14.0 16.2 Northumberland 10.3 13.2 Gateshead 12.7 17.8 Newcastle upon Tyne 15.3 17.1 North Tyneside 13.0 20.9 South Tyneside 8.9 16.7 Sunderland 12.6 15.6 Yorkshire 14.3 16.6 Humberside 13.0 16.1 North Yorkshire 11.3 14.4 Bradford 16.1 18.0 Calderdale 21.2 18.7 Kirklees 14.6 15.8 Leeds 13.8 17.3 Wakefield 16.1 17.6 Trent 12.5 14.6 Derbyshire 11.7 13.6 Leicestershire 13.4 15.0 Lincolnshire 9.4 13.5 Nottinghamshire 13.6 16.0 Barnsley 18.2 18.0 Doncaster 11.4 15.1 Rotherham 12.3 15.8 Sheffield 11.8 11.9 East Anglia 12.6 13.0 Cambridgeshire 12.3 13.1 Norfolk 13.2 13.6 Suffolk 12.3 12.1 North West Thames 11.7 13.2 Bedfordshire 12.0 16.'9 Hertfordshire 12.1 11.9 Barnet 10.5 10.4 Brent and Harrow 11.3 13.1 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 11.5 13.3 Hillingdon 13.0 12.6 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 11.1 12.7 North East Thames 11.9 13.5 Essex 9.4 11.2 Barking and Havering 13.9 14.2 Camden and Islington 14.3 14.4 City and East London 14.2 17.9 Enfield and Haringey 12.0 12.2 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 13.4 14.5 South East Thames 13.1 14.1 East Sussex 12.6 13.6 Kent 11.7 14.0 Greenwich and Bexley 14.8 13.6 Bromley 9.7 11.7 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 16.2 15.5 South West Thames 11.1 13.3 Surrey 10.8 10.8 West Sussex 12.0 16.8 Croydon 12.2 16.3 Kingston and Richmond 9.4 11.6 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 10.7 12.7 Wessex 12.8 12.8 Dorset 14.2 12.0 Hampshire 11.8 11.8 Wiltshire 14.1 15.7 Isle of Wight 14.9 16.4 Oxford 11.3 11.6 Berkshire 11.6 10.7 Buckinghamshire 10.2 12.5 Northamptonshire 12.3 13.5
Area Infant death rate per 1,000 live births Perinatal death rate per 1,000 total births Oxfordshire 10.8 9.8 South Western 12.0 13.3 Avon 12.5 14.7 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 13.2 14.9 Devon 10.8 11.4 Gloucestershire 10.1 10.8 Somerset 14.6 15.5 West Midlands 13.8 16.8 Hereford and Worcester 12.3 14.3 Salop 13.9 16.9 Staffordshire 13.1 15.7 Warwickshire 14.7 15.5 Birmingham 14.9 16.4 Coventry 15.1 19.0 Dudley 12.1 18.8 Sandwell 17.4 22.6 Solihull 11.9 15.9 Walsall 11.2 16.7 Wolverhampton 13.5 19.2 Mersey 13.0 15.6 Cheshire 12.8 15.5 Liverpool 11.4 14.8 St. Helens and Knowsley 15.7 20.4 Sefton 11.2 13.2 Wirral 14.4 13.1 North-Western 13.8 15.9 Lancashire 12.3 15.1 Bolton 15.6 18.4 Bury 15.6 13.9 Manchester 18.5 15.4 Oldham 13.2 14.6 Rochdale 15.5 16.5 Salford 17.2 22.2 Stockport 9.7 13.3 Tameside 11.0 18.3 Trafford 12.6 13.9 Wigan 12.9 16.9