HC Deb 24 January 1958 vol 580 c218W
Mr. Dodds

asked the Minister of Health how many patients detained in mental hospitals are certified as moral defectives under Section 1 (d) of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913.

Mr. Walker-Smith

Hospitals are not asked to distinguish such patients in their statistical returns; but a special census inquiry made by the General Register Office showed that there were 85 such patients on 31st December, 1954.