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Mrs. Renée Short
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish the perinatal mortality rate for each Thames region and for East Anglia for each year from 1983 to the latest available figure.
Mrs. Currie
The information is given in the table.
Number of perinatal deaths (stillbirths and deaths in first week of life) and rale per 1,000 total live and stillbirths for East Anglian and Thames Regional Health Authorities (RHA), 1983 to 1985
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1983
| 1984
| 1985
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Area of usual residence
| Number
| Rate
| Number
| Rate
| Number
| Rate
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| East Anglian RHA | 215 | 9·3 | 213 | 8·9 | 241 | 9·8 |
| North West Thames RHA | 395 | 8·6 | 420 | 9·0 | 435 | 9·1 |
| North East Thames RHA | 496 | 9·9 | 499 | 9·7 | 488 | 9·3 |
| South East Thames RHA | 451 | 10·2 | 473 | 10·5 | 450 | 9·5 |
| South West Thames RHA | 327 | 9·4 | 302 | 8·6 | 340 | 9·3 |