Child Mortality Rates

HC Deb 15 July 1994 vol 246 cc825-6W

Mrs. Fyfe

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list child mortality rates for each assigned social class within each health board area.

Deaths of persons aged 0–15 by social class and health board area Scotland 19931
	Social class
	Total	I	II	III	VI	V	Not stated
				(non manual)	(Manual)
Scotland	665	21	95	34	166	83	54	212
Borders	9	—	5	—	—	1	—	3
Dumfries and Galloway	20	—	3	1	6	4	1	5
Fife	41	1	3	4	14	6	6	7
Forth Valley	34	2	6	2	7	5	1	11
Grampian	50	—	9	3	14	9	4	11
Highland	32	4	5	33	6	1	3	10
Lothian	93	4	12	8	22	8	7	32
Tayside	49	1	3	1	10	9	4	21
Orkney Islands	1	—	—	—	—	1	—	—
Shetland Islands	2	—	1	—	—	1	—	—
Western Isles	4	—	—	—	2	—	1	1
Argyll and Clyde	58	3	7	4	13	2	8	21
Ayrshire and Arran	51	1	4	1	19	7	3	16
Greater Glasgow	150	3	24	4	38	18	10	53
Lanarkshire	71	2	13	3	15	11	6	21
1 Provisional.

Mr. Stewart

[holding answer 11 July 1994]: Mortality rates are not available. The table shows the number of children who died for each assigned social class within each health board area. Children whose parents' occupation is unknown are shown in the "not stated" column.