§ Mr. Reidasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many unnatural deaths have occurred in Scottish psychiatric hospitals for each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. Harry EwingThe latest available information relating to National Health Service psychiatric hospitals is in the table below. In some cases the incident leading to death will have occurred elsewhere than in hospital.
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DEATHS FROM CAUSES OTHER THAN NATURAL CAUSES WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN NHS PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS IN SCOTLAND, 1965–74 ICD Code Cause 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 E800-E999 … Total accidents, poisoning and violence (external cause) 54 45 56 52 53 56 52 52 66 77 E810-E819 … Motor vehicle traffic accidents — — 3 — — 3 2 2 3 1 E850-E859 … Accidental poisoning by drugs and medicaments 1 2 3 — — — — — 1 — E860-E869 … Accidental poisoning by other solid and liquid substances — — — — — — — E880-E887 … Accidental falls 40 27 34 34 40 38 34 34 43 50 E890-E929 … Other accidents 6 9 8 7 6 8 8 7 12 17 E930-E936 … Surgical and medical complications and misadventures — — — — — — — — 1 — E940-E949 … Late effects of accidental injury — 2 1 1 2 2 — 2 — 1 E950-E959 … Suicide and self-inflicted injury 7 5 7 6 3 3 6 6 5 7 E960-E969 … Homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons —
— — — — — 1 — — — E980-E989 … Injury undetermined whether accidentally or purposely inflicted — — — 4 2 2 — 1 1 1 E990-E999 … Injury resulting from operations of war — — — — — — 1 — — —