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Sea Pollution
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the progress of the Medical Research Council's study of the effects of sea pollution on health.
Mr. Waldegrave : I have been asked to reply.
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The Medical Research Council is not carrying out any studies into the effects of sea pollution on health. It is, however, always willing to consider soundly based scientific proposals in competition with other applications for research funding.Life Expectancy and Infant Mortality
Mr. Peter Bottomley : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the change in (a) life expectancy and (b) infant mortality in the last 10 years in (i) the United Kingdom and (ii) other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.
Mr. Sackville [pursuant to his reply, 17 March 1994, c. 826-27] : I regret that the table showing life expectancy and infant mortality rate for the United Kingdom, 1982-1991 in my previous reply was inconsistent with the text. A revised table based on 100,000 livebirths is as follows :
Life expectancy and infant mortality rate for the
United Kingdom
1982-1991
Life Infant
Expectancy<1>
|Mortality
Year |Males |Females |Rate<2>
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1982 |71.1 |77.0 |1,098.1
1983 |71.4 |77.2 |1,019.6
1984 |71.5 |77.4 |952.4
1985 |71.7 |77.5 |936.4
1986 |71.9 |77.6 |951.0
1987 |72.2 |77.9 |912.4
1988 |72.4 |78.0 |896.6
1989 |72.7 |78.3 |841.6
1990 |73.0 |78.5 |785.4
1991 |73.3 |78.8 |735.0
<1> At birth.
<2>Per 100,000 births.
Source: Population Trends (Tables 8 and 12), for
1982-1990.
World Health Organisation Statistics volume 1992,
for 1991.
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