§ Mrs. Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will institute a survey of the incidence of old-age pensioners dying of malnutrition and hypothermia in Scotland and of the incidence of cases in which these factors contributed to hastening of death.
§ Mr. RossMy Department is at present taking part in a Great Britain study of the nutrition and diets of the elderly. I have also arranged for the Registrar-General to make a special record over the next 12 months of all cases in which the death certificates of men aged 65 and over, and women aged 60 or over, mention malnutrition or hypothermia as one of the causes of death.