§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the number of hospital admissions in each of the five years 1973 to 1977 inclusive in England and Wales, and a table showing the numbers within each area health authority hospital for rickets and osteomalacia treatment.
§ Mr. DeakinsThe estimated number of discharges from hospitals in England and Wales of patients treated for diseases where the main diagnosis was given as vitamin D deficiency, which includes rickets and osteomalacia, was 810 in each of the three years 1973 to 1975. These figures are for spells in hospitals and do not necessarily relate to individual cases or new patients. Figures for 1976 and 1977 are not yet available, and figures of 767W discharges from individual hospitals could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.