§ 30. Mr. Newensasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many cases of alcoholism were dealt with through the National Health Service during the last year for which figures are available.
§ Sir George YoungCentral records are not available of admissions of patients who present themselves with alcohol-based problems not separately recorded, or patients treated by general medical practitioners or as out-patients or day-patients. The number of admissions to National Health Service mental illness hospitals and units in England in 1979, where a primary diagnosis of alcoholic psychosis or alcohol dependency syndrome was recorded, was 12,759.