§ Mr. Trippierasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the number of post mortems carried out since 1972 under section 21 of the Coroners Act 1887 and Coroners Amendment Act 1926, showing their percentage in relation to the annual death rate and the number of post mortems in each year which indicate violent death, industrial accident, industrial disease, chronic alcoholism, addiction to drugs, lack of care or self neglect, natural causes and causes unknown, respectively.
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§ Mr. RaisonA statistical bulletin giving the information available for 1970 to 1980 is in course of preparation and will be published in a few weeks' time. A copy of this bulletin will be placed in the Library of the House.