Perinatal Mortality

HC Deb 22 July 1983 vol 46 c247W

Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Wales what is the current perinatal mortality rate for Wales; and what it was in 1979.

Mr. Wyn Roberts

In 1982 the perinatal mortality rate was 11.1 per thousand total births; the comparable figure for 1979 was 15.6.