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Mr. Barry Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the number of low birth weight babies born; and what it was as a proportion of all births for each Welsh health district for 1983–84 and the latest available year.
Mr. Grist
Information derived from all registered births to residents of health districts in Wales is shown in the table:
Health district residence
| Births under 2,500 grams
| |||
1 Number
| 2 Percentage
| Number
| 2 Percentage
| |
| Clwyd | 339 | 7·0 | 333 | 6·3 |
| East Dyfed | 142 | 5·8 | 162 | 5·9 |
| Gwent | 411 | 7·4 | 425 | 6·6 |
| Gwynedd | 171 | 6·2 | 197 | 6·5 |
| Mid Glamorgan | 535 | 7·1 | 520 | 6·6 |
| Pembrokeshire | 95 | 6·9 | 106 | 7·5 |
| Powys | 75 | 5·9 | 78 | 5·6 |
| South Glamorgan | 358 | 6·7 | 388 | 6·4 |
| West Glamorgan | 302 | 6·6 | 258 | 5·4 |
1 Estimated. | ||||
2 Percentage of all births. | ||||