asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the number of one-parent families in Great Britain, differentiating between widows and widowers, divorcees and others.
Taking account of results from the 1981 census and information from the general household survey for the years 1981–83 the best available estimates of the numbers of one-parent families in Great Britain are as follows:
| 1982 (thousands) | |
| Lone mothers: | |
| single | 180 |
| widowed | 120 |
1982 (thousands)
| |
| divorced | 350 |
| separated | 180 |
| Lone fathers | 100 |
| 930 |
Rugby District Health Authority *
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1979
| 1980
| 1981
| 1982
| 1983
| †1984 | |
NHS hospitals
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| In-patient cases | 7,812 | 7,955 | 8,136 | 8,440 | 8,982 | 9,244 |
| Day cases | 426 | 477 | 581 | 635 | 749 | 827 |
| New out-patient attendances | 11,922 | 11,904 | 11,629 | 12,136 | 12,774 | 12,732 |
| Total out-patient attendances | 49,745 | 50,271 | 48,438 | 49,722 | 52,842 | 54,087 |
| New accident and emergency attendances | 16,425 | 16,850 | 17,456 | 18,297 | 18,354 | 18,527 |
| Total accident and emergency attendances | 22,950 | 21,716 | 22,537 | 25,487 | 27,079 | 27,768 |
Community health services
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| Health visitors: Total first visits | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | 6,641 | 6,429 | ‡ |
| Home nurses: Persons treated | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | 4,157 | 3,974 | ‡ |
| Number of children under 5 who attended Child Health Clinics | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | 3,225 | 3,193 | ‡ |
* Rugby Health District prior to 1 April 1982. | ||||||
| † Provisional. | ||||||
| ‡ Not available. | ||||||