§ Sir W. JENKINSasked the Minister of Health the number of patients in mental hospitals in England and Wales for 1926, 1930, 1933, and 1934; and the average cost per head per week?
§ Sir K. WOODThe available figures are as follow:
County and Borough Mental Hospitals. 1st January. Number of Patients. Average weekly cost per patient, excluding capital expenditure defrayed out of revenue. (Year ended 31st March.) 1926 … 107,836 * 1930 … 117,249 * s. d. 1933 … 122,629 25 11.9(69 Hospitals) s. d. 1934 … 123,977 25 7.1 * The figures for these years are not given as the form of Costing Returns was revised as from 1st April, 1932; for the first year of its application (1932–33) only 69 of the 99 hospitals furnished such revised Returns.