HC Deb 22 February 1972 vol 831 c243W
32. Mr. Skinner

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many old people died of hypothermia in the three months preceding 9th January, 1972.

Mr. Dean

The latest available figures relate to the December quarter, 1971. In England and Wales the total number of deaths in that period at ages 65 and over, where hypothermia was a contributory cause, was 77.