Table 1.

Total number of stillbirths registered, 1939–47

	Rate of stillbirths per 1,000 total births, 1939–47
	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947
Scotland	3,832	3,799	3,698	3,602	3,494	3,221	2,949	3,483	3,563
	42	42	39.6	38.2	35.6	32.5	32.8	32.3	30.5
England and Wales	24,309	22,731	20,876	22,383	21,262	21,306	19,333	22,915	21,795
	38	36	35	33	30	28	28	27	24

Source:Annual Reports of the Registrar-General for Scotland, 1939–47; Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales for 1939–47.