HC Deb 10 June 1975 vol 893 c151W
29. Mr. Giles Shaw

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many patients were discharged from psychiatric hospitals into the care of the local authorities in the last 12 months.

Dr. Owen

In 1973, the latest year for which mental health inquiry statistics are available, there were about 16,000 discharges from mental illness hospitals and units in England and Wales in which some form of local authority social services care was arranged.