HC Deb 18 May 1950 vol 475 cc173-4W
68. Sir H. Williams

asked the Secretary to the Treasury why, in the April, 1950, number of the Monthly Digest of Statistics, the deaths in the first quarter of 1947 have been omitted.

Mr. Jay

The figures for the first quarter of 1947 have been given in earlier numbers of the Monthly Digest of Statistics, but the amount of space available for this table permits the printing of figures for only 12 post-war quarters; when figures for the first quarter of 1950 became available it was accordingly necessary to drop the figures for the first quarter of 1947,