§ 50. Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many mentally- and physically-handicapped children were in long-stay hospitals at the latest date for which figures are available.
§ Mr. AlisonAt the end of 1970 there were in hospital about 6,300 mentally handicapped children, many of whom are also physically handicapped. An estimate made in April, 1969, of the number of physically handicapped children in non-psychiatric wards who had been in-patients for four months or more showed a total of some 1,400.