§ Miss Wrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the neonatal and perinatal mortality rates for the five Birmingham district health authorities, subdividing to a basis of local authority wards.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergThe latest available neonatal and perinatal death rates are for 1981 and the following figures are for the health districts of Birmingham as constituted at the time. Data for local authority wards are not compiled. Rates for health districts can vary quite widely from year to year, owing to the small numbers of events occurring each year.
Neonatal and perinatal mortality rates for the five Birmingham health districts, 1981 *Neonatal mortality rate †Perinatal mortality rate Central (Birmingham) HD 6.8 14.2 East (Birmingham) HD 9.2 12.8 North (Birmingham) HD 5.6 8.6 South (Birmingham) HD 5.1 8.2 West (Birmingham) HD 9.2 16.0 * Per thousand live births.
‡ Per thousand live and stillbirths.