§ Mr. Fowlerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will inquire from local medical officers of health what was the figure of deaths of old people from bronchitis, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases during February; how these figures compare with previous months and with the same period for 1971 and 1970; and whether he will publish this information.
§ Mr. AlisonProvisional figures for "all ages" are published each week in the Registrar General's Weekly Return and, for the periods referred to in the Question, are as follows. Except as shown in the table, separate figures for particular age-groups are not available without disproportionate expense.