§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the number of (a) stillbirths, (b) perinatal deaths, (c) neonatal deaths, (d) postneonatal deaths and (e) infant deaths per 1,000 total births in Dundee and Tayside in the latest year, by social class of the father.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe information requested is:
death by the following category in Scotland at the latest available date or period for manual and non-manual groups : (a) all causes, (b) lung cancer, (c) coronary heart disease and (d) cerebro-vascular disease.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe latest information is contained in "Mortality Differentials in Scotland and England and Wales in Manual/Non-Manual Occupational Groups 1969–73 to 1979–83" which was published in the vital statistics return to the Registrar General for Scotland, Weeks 41–44, 1986. A copy of this publication is in the Library.
§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the standardised mortality rate of women aged 20 to 59 years by social class in Dundee and Tayside at the latest available date or period.
§ Mr. John MacKayInformation on standardised mortality ratios by social class for women aged 20–64 for Tayside for the period 1979–83 is as follows. The ratios are based on information from death registrations and the 1981 Census, and are subject to error because of different methods of collecting information on occupation. Information for Dundee is not available.
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Standardised mortality ratios for women aged 20.64, by social class, Tayside Region, 1979–83 Social Class Standardised Mortality Ratio I 61 II 71 III N 67 III M 84 IV 92 V 107 NoteThe standardised mortality ratio for women in the total of all social classes in Great Britain is 100.