§ Mrs. Sally Oppenheimasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many children were treated in hospital in England and Wales for the toxic 58W effects of non-medicinal substances, between 1967 and the latest available date.
§ Dr. OwenThe number of children under 15 years of age admitted as in-patients to hospital in England and Wales suffering from or suspected to be suffering from the toxic effects of substances "chiefly non-medicinal as to source" for each of the years 1968 to 1972 inclusive is estimated to have been as follows. The figures are derived from a sample survey:
1968 7,645 1969 9,755 1970 9,790 1971 10,000 1972 9,580 I regret that precisely comparable figures for 1967 are not available.