Mr. W. H. K. Bakerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many deaths occurred in England and Wales in each of the past five years which were directly attributable to the use of methohexitone in general anaesthesia in dentistry in private dental practices, hospital dentistry and school dentistry.
§ Mr. CrossmanFigures in the form requested are not available. Death registrations associated with the use of dental anaesthetics, where Methohexitone was mentioned as one of the anaesthetic agents employed, were as follows:
1964 1 1965 1 1966 0 1967 0 1968 3 Total death registrations associated with the use of dental anaesthetics in these years were 32.