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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 20 Mar 1969

Vol. 239 No. 5

Ceisteanna — Questions. Oral Answers. - Infant Mortality Rates.

80.

asked the Minister for Health the infant mortality rates for the latest available year for this State and for other European countries.

As the information requested by the Deputy is in the form of a tabular statement, I propose, a Cheann Comhairle, with your permission, to circulate it with the Official Report.

Following is the statement:

INFANT Mortality rates per 1,000 live births in 1967.

Portugal

59

Rumania

47

Poland

38

Hungary

37

Greece

34

Italy

33

Austria

26

Spain

25

Ireland

24

Belgium

23

Czechoslovakia

23

Federal Republic of Germany

23

Six Counties

23

France

21

Scotland

21

Luxembourg

20

England and Wales

18

Switzerland

17

Finland

14

Netherlands

13

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