HC Deb 17 April 1961 vol 638 cc65-6W
63. Lieut.-Commander Cordeaux

asked the Minister of Health how many deaths have been caused, or possibly caused, during the past two years, from any convenient date, by the combination of barbiturate drugs and alcohol, both consumed within a short period of time.

Miss Pitt

Two hundred and thirty-two deaths in 1959 were assigned to accidental poisoning by barbiturates and 19 of these were stated to be associated with consumption of alcohol. Provisional figures for 1960 are 293 and 48 respec-

Year Diphtheria cases Diphtheria deaths
Fully immunised Unimmunised or not fully immunised Fully immunised Unimmunised or not fully immunised
1955 … … 34 121 0 13
1956 … … 11 42 1 7
1957 … … 6 31 0 4
1958 … … 25 55 1 7
1959 … … 38 64 0 0
1960 … … 4 45 1 4
NOTE—A person is regarded as fully immunised if he has concluded a primary course or received a reinforcing inoculation within the previous five years.

tively. The returns do not indicate within what period the drugs and alcohol were consumed.