BY

This report would have been impossible without the help given to us by many people. We wish to thank particularly the clerical, nursing and medical staffs of hospitals and units throughout the country who continue to provide the information on which this series of publications is based. Thanks are also due to Rosemary Brady and Yvonne Dunne for their careful checking and coding of the data, to Sue Starks, B.A. who prepared the histograms and helped with the compilation of the tables, to Joan McCann for typing the report and finally to Bill Doyle and Martin Buckley who were responsible for the com-puter processi'1g