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Mr. Sean Hughes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what are the figures from 1979 to 1989 for the number of (a) spina bifida births, (b) hydroencephaly births, (c) still births and (d) cot deaths, in the Merseyside area.
Mr. Freeman
The information is shown in the table.
| Numbers of (a) spina bifida births, (b) hydroencephaly births, (c) stillbirths and (d) cot deaths' in Mersey Regional Health Authority, 1979–88. | ||||
| Stillbirths | Spina bifida | Hydroencephalus | Cot deaths | |
| 1979 | 278 | 33 | 45 | 9 |
| 1980 | 238 | 28 | 42 | 35 |
| 1981 | 207 | 25 | 41 | 46 |
| 1982 | 214 | 14 | 26 | 48 |
| 1983 | 156 | 18 | 22 | 51 |
| 1984 | 181 | 15 | 27 | 46 |
| 1985 | 179 | 13 | 23 | 53 |
| 1986 | 180 | 11 | 12 | 77 |
| 1987 | 175 | 12 | 7 | 65 |
| 1988 | 135 | 10 | 8 | 56 |
| 1 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome-International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, code 798.0. | ||||