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Mr. Onslow
asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many Service men and women were invalided out of the Service during the period covered by the Defence White Paper 1977, Command Paper No.
Cause | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976* | ||||||
1. Infective and parasitic diseases | … | … | … | 21 | 28 | 16 | 15 | |||
2. Neoplasms | … | … | … | … | … | … | 30 | 31 | 23 | 22 |
3. Psychiatric disorders | … | … | … | … | … | 996 | 810 | 439 | 342 | |
4. Diseases of the nervous system and sense organs | … | 364 | 315 | 248 | 259 | |||||
5. Diseases of the circulatory system | … | … | … | 135 | 128 | 92 | 80 | |||
6. Diseases of the respiratory system | … | … | … | 107 | 87 | 83 | 68 | |||
7. Diseases of the digestive system | … | … | … | 159 | 149 | 91 | 67 | |||
8. Diseases of the genito-urinary system | … | … | 25 | 14 | 11 | 18 | ||||
9. Diseases of the skin and sub-cutaneous tissues | … | 137 | 103 | 57 | 53 | |||||
10. Diseases of the musculo-skeletal system | … | … | 363 | 370 | 326 | 306 | ||||
11. Congenital anomalies | … | … | … | … | 64 | 69 | 40 | 50 |
place in the 12 months preceding publication of the 1977 Defence White Paper are as follows:
6735; what were the main contributory causes; and how this compares with the situation in each of the three previous years.
Dr. Gilbert
By calendar years the-information requested is as follows:
Cause
| 1973
| 1974
| 1975
| 1976 *
| ||||||
12. Other ailments | … | … | … | … | … | 180 | 155 | 96 | 103 | |
13. Injuries | … | … | … | … | … | … | 277 | 277 | 275 | 246 |
TOTALS | … | … | … | … | … | … | 2,858 | 2,536 | 1,797 | 1,629 |
* Provisional figures. |