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Mr. Freud
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the ratio of hospital beds to population by specialty in each area health authority in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Mr. Moyle
In each area the following numbers of beds were available in 1975 to serve each 1,000 population in the area:
| CAMBRIDGESHIRE | |
| Specialty | |
| Acute | 2·8 |
| Obstetric | 0·5 |
| Geriatric | 1·0 |
| Mental handicap | 0·6 |
| Mental illness | 1·4 |
| LINCOLNSHIRE | |
| Specialty | |
| Acute | 2·9 |
| Obstetric | 0·4 |
| Geriatric | 1·1 |
| Mental handicap | 1·1* |
| Mental illness | 1·8* |
| NORFOLK | |
| Specialty | |
| Acute | 2·7 |
| Obstetric | 0·4 |
| Geriatric | 1·1 |
| Mental handicap | 1·2 |
| Mental illness | 2·0 |
| SUFFOLK | |
| Specialty | |
| Acute | 2·8 |
| Obstetric | 0·5 |
| Geriatric | 1·7 |
| Mental handicap | 0·9 |
| Mental illness | 2·1 |
| (* Excludes beds in the area providing psychiatry service to South Humberside.) | |