asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will state in respect of the benefit year 1961-62 (a) the number of insured persons certified as suffering from the principal illnesses who were paid disability benefit and (b) the total number of days of certified incapacity in each case.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Disability Benefit Payments.
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the form of a tabular statement, which I propose, a Cheann Comhairle, with your permission, to circulate with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:
|
Illness |
Number of Insured Persons Certified |
Days of Certified Incapacity |
|
Circulatory |
11,635 |
2,072,712 |
|
Bones and Organs of Movement |
13,819 |
2,015,220 |
|
Respiratory |
36,344 |
1,859,946 |
|
Digestive |
13,992 |
1,180,890 |
|
Mental Psychoneurotic and Personality |
7,570 |
1,169,970 |
|
Tuberculosis |
4,365 |
1,040,724 |
|
Nervous System and Sense Organs |
6,092 |
928,122 |
|
Accidents |
8,811 |
636,252 |
|
Blood and Blood Forming Organs |
4,535 |
502,362 |
|
Senility and Ill-defined Conditions |
6,100 |
455,844 |
|
Allergic, Endocrine System, Metabolic |
2,900 |
446,592 |
|
Genito-Urinary |
3,327 |
282,078 |
|
Skin and Cellular Tissue |
4,340 |
235,686 |
|
Neoplasms |
815 |
98,148 |
|
Infective and Parasitic |
2,934 |
78,672 |