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Dame Jill Knight
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the level of infant mortality rates in 1979; and what they are today.
Mr. Dorrell
The information is shown in the table:
| Infant mortality rates1 England and Wales 1979, 1989 | |
| Year | Rate1 |
| 1979 | 12·8 |
| 1989 | 8·4 |
| 1 Rate per 1,000 live births. | |