§ 11. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Minister of Pensions how many pensions hospitals there are in Scotland; where they are situated; how many patients they accommodated on 1st January, 1946, and on the latest convenient date; how many of these are curable and how many incurable; what tests are applied; and how often is each case reported on to the patients or to their immediate kindred.
§ Mr. J. HyndThere is one hospital in Scotland administered by my Department at Edenhall, near Edinburgh. Special provision for the treatment of pensioners is also made at the Princess Louise Hospital, Erskine House, near134W Glasgow, and under arrangements made with the Department of Health for Scotland and other Authorities pensioners may be treated in hospitals in various parts of Scotland. The numbers of patients in Edenhall Hospital on 1st January, 1946, and on 25th June, 1947, were 154 and 187 respectively. In Erskine House there were, on 28th December, 1945, 99 pensioners, and there are at the present time 115 pensioners. On 31st December, 1945, there were 201 pensioners in 53 general hospitals, and on 31st December, 1946, 236 pensioners in 51 hospitals. In addition there are at the present about 520 pensioners in sanatoria and about 55o in mental hospitals in Scotland. I regret that as regards these two categories the numbers under treatment on 1st January, 1946, are not readily available. As regards the other parts of the Question, it is not the practice to classify pensioners on the lines mentioned.