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Mortality Rates

Volume 174: debated on Tuesday 12 June 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the amount of (a) perinatal and (b) neonatal mortality in each district health authority and management division in Wales in each of the years 1986 to 1989.

The information is given in the tables. Care should be taken in interpreting mortality rates derived from fewer than 20 events, and these are marked in the tables with 2.

a. Perinatal mortality1

1986 Number

1986 Rate

1987 Number

1987 Rate

1988 Number

1988 Rate

1989 Number

1989 Rate

East District Hospitals17

211·3

18

212·2

14

29·5

12

28·7

North and West District Hospitals319·5278·2267·9237·2

Source: O.P.C.S.

1 Perinatal deaths are stillbirths and deaths in the week after birth; rates are the number of perinatal deaths per 1,000 total (live and still) births.

2 Denotes a Rate calculated from fewer than 20 events.

b. Neonatal Mortality1

1986 Number

1986 Rate

1987 Number

1987 Rate

1988 Number

1988 Rate

1989 Number

1989 Rate

Wales2075·61905·01834·71804·7
DHA/Management Units Clwyd DHA265·1234·4203·8326·1
North Clwyd9

24·3

9

24·2

7

23·1

6

22·8

South Clwyd17

25·7

14

24·6

13

24·3

268·2
East Dyfed DHA15

25·9

17

26·2

13

24·8

7

22·7

Ceredigion3

24·5

5

26·9

5

26·9

2

22·8

Carmarthen-Dinefwr4

25·3

6

27·2

2

22·4

2

22·5

Llanelli· Dinefwr8

27·1

6

25·0

6

25·1

3

22·8

Pembrokeshire DHA7

25·1

8

25·5

14

29·9

7

24·8

Gwent DHA396·5366·0314·8274·3
North Gwent Hospitals9

26·1

8

25·4

8

25·2

6

23·8

Pontypool and West Gwent Hospitals15

27·4

13

26·3

18

28·1

8

23·8

Newport and Chepstow Hospitals15

26·0

15

26·0

5

21·9

13

25·0

Gwynedd DHA207·117

26·0

17

25·6

12

24·0

Anglesey8

19·1

8

28·8

5

25·3

4

24·2

Meirionnydd1

22·9

4

210·1

4

210·8

3

27·7

Aberconwy2

23·7

1

21·9

2

23·2

4

26·5

Arfon6

28·0

4

25·7

3

23·8

1

21·3

Dwyfor3

210·2

0

20·0

3

29·9

0

20·0

Mid Glamorgan DHA354·7273·5283·6425·5
Ogwr6

23·4

8

24·5

8

24·2

10

25·5

Taff Ely5

23·7

2

21·4

4

22·9

9

26·7

Rhondda5

24·7

5

24·4

1

20·9

5

24·6

Merthyr-Cynon10

25·8

8

24·5

10

25·6

11

26·0

Rhymney Valley9

25·9

4

22·5

5

23·0

7

24·6

Powys DHA2

21·6

7

25·3

8

25·8

4

22·9

Montgomery2

23·6

3

24·9

5

27·3

3

24·6

Brecknock and Radnor0

20·0

4

25·7

3

24·3

1

21·4

South Glamorgan DHA396·7295·0274·5305·1
West Glamorgan DHA245·1265·5255·319

24·1

East District Hospitals11

27·3

10

26·8

8

25·5

10

27·2

North and West District Hospitals13

240

1624·917

25·2

9

22·8

Source: O.P.C.S.

1 Neonatal deaths are deaths within the first 4 weeks of birth; rates are the number of neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births.

2 Denotes a rate calculated from fewer than 20 events.