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Mr. Ashley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the number of (a) physically handicapped people, (b) mentally handicapped people and (c) mentally ill people who were discharged from hospital
| Discharges by duration of stay 1983 to 1987–881 | |||||
| Length of stay | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987–88 |
| (a) Physically handicapped people. | |||||
| No information is available centrally. | |||||
| (b) Mentally handicapped | |||||
| Less than 1 month | 27,549 | 31,548 | 34,380 | 36,155 | 30,870 |
| One month or more but less than 3 months | 1,208 | 1,213 | 1,188 | 1,178 | 1,100 |
| Three months or more but less than 6 months | 326 | 303 | 378 | 405 | 570 |
| Six months or more but less than 1 year | 256 | 285 | 309 | 566 | |
| (c) Mental illness | |||||
| Less than 1 month | 109,757 | 112,759 | 116,919 | 115,868 | 117,960 |
| One month or more but less than 3 months | 48,591 | 48,574 | 50,323 | 50,245 | 45,250 |
| Three months or more but less than 6 months | 10,396 | 11,219 | 11,408 | 11,645 | 14,250 |
| Six months or more but less than 1 year | 4,697 | 5,043 | 4,921 | 5,149 | |
| 1For 1987–88 the figures given are for finished district spells which are not strictly comparable with the discharges shown for earlier years. | |||||