While the study, which focused on the cohort for 2009, showed a drop in the stillbirth rate from the previous year, it also revealed that mothers and pregnant women who were significantly more deprived than the average maternal population were more likely to have babies who die in the first few weeks after birth.
Mothers in the most deprived areas of England were found to be 1.6 times more likely to have a stillbirth or suffer the death of a newborn child.
Of all the mothers who suffered still births just 12 per cent were from the most affluent parts of the country while 34.2 per cent were from the poorest areas.
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