Suicide

HC Deb 13 November 1987 vol 122 cc363-5W

Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what have been the rates of suicide in the Huddersfield health area for every year since 1957;

Number of deaths and death rates per 100,000 population from suicide and self-inflicted injury1, United Kingdom, Yorkshire2 and Huddersfield2 1957–86
	Area
	United Kingdom	Yorkshire2	Huddersfield2
Year	Number	Rate	Number	Rate	Number	Rate
1957	5,786	11.724	3—	3—	21	16.46
1958	5,780	11.18	3—	3—	27	21.08
1959	5,701	11.98	3—	3—	20	15.56
1960	5,583	10.66	3—	3—	23	17.81
1961	5,682	11.76	3—	3—	26	20.01
1962	6,123	11.49	3—	3—	18	12.74
1963	6,247	11.65	408	12.96	24	18.20
1964	6,070	11.24	376	11.90	33	24.95
1965	5,646	11.39	347	11.92	19	14.36
1966	5,489	10.05	363	11.38	22	16.68
1967	5,201	9.46	347	10.84	20	15.14
1968	5,056	9.16	323	10.04	23	17.56
1969	4,779	8.62	324	10.06	14	10.72
1970	4,386	7.88	297	9.22	18	13.86
1971	4,376	7.83	287	8.88	10	7.66
1972	4,238	7.56	288	8.89	21	16.13
1973	4,313	7.67	272	8.37	15	11.53
1974	4,398	7.82	272	7.82	32	8.53
1975	4,176	7.43	234	6.54	24	6.40
1976	4,314	7.68	280	7.83	29	7.79
1977	4,468	7.95	273	7.64	28	7.43
1978	4,531	8.7	305	8.53	25	6.51
1979	4,765	8.47	350	9.79	40	10.55
1980	4,917	8.73	350	9.77	32	8.41
1981	5,025	8.91	306	8.52	31	8.21
1982	4,933	8.76	327	9.09	23	6.10
1983	4,926	8.74	310	8.62	21	9.83
1984	4,943	8.75	303	8.42	22	10.31
1985	5,105	9.02	315	8.75	16	7.53
1986	4,839	8.52	304	8.44	24	11.29
1 Suicide and self inflicted injury.
1957–67 E970–E979 International Classification of Diseases 7th Revision.
1968–86 E950–E959 ICD 8th and 9th Revision.
2 Figures for areas reflects available data:
Yorkshire
1960–62 No data available.
1963–73 Leeds Hospital Region.
1974–86 Yorkshire Regional Health authority.
Huddersfield
1957–73 Huddersfield County Borough.
1974–81 Kirklees Metropolitan County Borough.
1982–86 Huddersfield District Health Authority.
3 No data available.

Note: Kirklees MCD area is coterminous with that of the Huddersfield DHA.

Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many suicides have occurred involving patients discharged from mental hospitals in the Huddersfield health authority area since the Government's care in the community campaign began;

(2) what have been the rates of suicide in the Yorkshire regional health authority area in each year since 1960;

(3) what have been the rates of suicide in the United Kingdom in each year since 1960.

Mrs. Currie

The available information is shown in the table. Because of changes in boundaries and administrative areas, figures for Huddersfield from 1957 to 1973 and for Yorkshire regional health authority from 1963 to 1973 are not comparable with those for later years.

(2) how many suicides have occurred involving patients discharged from mental hospitals in the Yorkshire regional health authority area since the Government's care in the community campaign began ;

(3) how many suicides have occurred involving patients discharged from mental hospitals in the United Kingdom since the Government's care in the community campaign began.

Mrs. Currie

I regret that it is not possible to identify former in-patients of psychiatric hospitals from the registration of deaths.