HC Deb 31 October 1946 vol 428 cc143-4W
92. Mr. W. J. Brown

asked the Minister of Health the average cost per head per week of maintaining persons in hospitals.

Mr. Bevan

Costs vary greatly in individual cases, but in 1937–38 the average weekly cost of a patient in a municipal general hospital was 63s. 8d. and in a voluntary hospital 82s. 5d.