§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many retirement pensioners were admitted to hospital suffering from hypothermia in the latest 12 months for which figures are available, in England and Wales; and how many died of it.
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§ Mr. MoyleInformation on hospital admissions is not available, but in the 12 months from October 1975 to September 1976 the total number of deaths of people over retirement age—men aged 65 and over and women aged 60 and over—in England and Wales in which hypothermia was given on the death certificate as the sole or main cause of death was 19.