HC Deb 19 May 1949 vol 465 c29W
57. Mr. Sorensen

asked the Minister of Health, in view of the number of cases of mentally deficient children who are still without institutional care, what progress has been made during the last year to meet this urgent need.

Mr. Bevan

Six hundred and forty-one additional beds for mental defectives were provided in the year 1948; of this number 72 were for children.