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Scurvy (Elderly People)

Volume 728: debated on Friday 20 May 1966

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asked the Minister of Health what is the incidence of scurvy in persons of 65 years of age and over in England and Wales.

Complete information is not available; but the hospital in-patient enquiry suggests that in the two years 1962 and 1963 about 110 inpatients aged 65 or over had scurvy.