§ Major N. Macphersonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will give a list showing the number of general medical practitioners and specialists, respectively, in each county and burgh in Scotland in 1938 and at the most recent date for which statistics are available
§ Mr. Westwood:Information is not available in the form for which the hon. and gallant Member asks, but the following particulars relating to the areas for which local medical war committees operate have been extracted from the records of the Scottish Central Medical War Committee:
Area Total number of medical practitioners Number of general practitioners 1938 December 1945 1938 December 1945 Aberdeen City 284 299 88 112 Aberdeen and Kincardine (except Aberdeen City) 155 132 83 92 Angus (except Dundee) 59 62 34 33 Argyllshire 94 77 57 50 Ayrshire 258 208 135 121 Banff, morav and Nairn 116 84 64 57 Bute 18 19 13 15 Caithness — 20 — 13 Dunbartonshire 138 140 68 72 Dumfries and Kirkcudbright 117 105 58 58 Dundee City 195 156 83 72 East Lothian 51 39 19 21 Edinburgh City 1,083 772 312 258 Fife 221 186 124 131 Glasgow City 1,244 914 489 400 Greenock Burgh 46 36 23 23 Inverness 97 93 48 46 Lanarkshire (except Glasgow) 377 311 201 192 Midlothian (except Edinburgh) 72 70 36 42 Orkney 25 19 18 17 Paisley Burgh 76 71 41 42 Perth and Kinross 154 133 74 74 Renfrew County (except Paislev and Greenock) 134 110 63 61 Ross and Cromarty 52 42 29 31 Shetland 25 19 11 10 South Eastern Counties 95 88 48 53 Stirling and Clackmannan 162 142 89 85 Sutherland — 12 — 6 Western Isles 26 22 16 18 West Lothian 42 48 27 27 Wigtown 30 48 19 27