§ Mr. Moonmanasked the Minister of Health if he will give the national figures per 100,000 population for patients aged 20 years and over discharged from mental hospital units, including teaching hospitals, according to the diagnoses of schizophrenia, depressions, neuroses and social deviations.
§ Mr. K. Robinson:Figures showing both age and diagnosis are not available. For the whole population of England and Wales the number of discharges (excluding deaths) in 1966 per 100,000 population were as follows:
Schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorders and paranoia 74 Depressive psychosis, and involutional melancholia 127 Psychoneuroses 49 Social deviation is not a diagnostic classification.