HC Deb 09 November 1959 vol 613 c7W
42. The Rev LI. Williams

asked the Minister of Health how many deaths caused by blood poisoning took place in the hospitals of Great Britain during 1958.

Miss Pitt

Sixty-three deaths in hospitals in England and Wales and, I understand from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland, fifteen in Scotland were specifically assigned to septicaemia and pyaemia.