HC Deb 06 July 1964 vol 698 c14W
Mr. Eldon Griffiths

asked the Minister of Health how many hospital beds have been provided in West Suffolk in each year since the war.

Mr. Braine

I regret that figures are not available for the period before 1953. From that year the numbers of staffed beds in the West Suffolk Hospital Management Committee Group as at 31st December, are:

1953 … … 950
1954 … … 957
1955 … … 923
1956 … … 915
1957 … … 915
1958 … … 897
1959 … … 893
1960 … … 890
1961 … … 1,015
1962 … … 1,062
1963 … … 1,029