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Mr. Corbett
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are perinatal mortality rates in Hemel Hempstead and the county of Hertfordshire, Brighton and the county of Sussex, and Newcastle and the county of Northumbria, expressed as stillbirths and deaths under one week of age per 1,000 total births, in 1975, 1976, and 1977.
Mr. Moyle
The numbers of stillbirths and deaths under one week of age per 1,000 total births are as follows:
| Administrative area | 1975 | 1976 | 1977* |
| Dacorum | 13 | 22 | 19 |
| Hertfordshire | 17 | 17 | 14 |
| Brighton | 16 | 12 | 20 |
| East Sussex | 18 | 19 | 18 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 15 | 20 | 20 |
| Tyne and Wear | 19 | 19 | 20 |
| Northumberland | 21 | 18 | 16 |
| * Provisional. | |||