HC Deb 08 May 1957 vol 569 c77W
Dr. Broughton

asked the Minister of Health the number of patients in England and Wales certified as being of unsound mind due to alcoholic psychoses in twelve months up to the latest convenient date; and how this figure compares with those for the same periods immediately before, and immediately after, the 1939–45 war.

Mr. Vosper:

1,053 certified patients were admitted to mental hospitals in 1955 in consequence of alcoholic psychosis or alcoholism. No figures of this kind are available before 1949, when the number was 438.