HC Deb 11 April 1949 vol 463 cc232-4W
Mr. P. Thorneycroft

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a statement for the last convenient annual period for each local health authority area in Scotland, showing the number of domiciliary births attended by a midwife only; the number of such births in which analgesia was administered; the total number of midwives employed; and the number of these midwives provided with their own transport in the form either of a car or a car allowance.

Mr. Woodburn

The following table gives the information:

Area Number of Births where midwife alone was present at time of confinement 1947 Cases in column (2) where analgesia administered Number of domiciliary midwives employed 1947 Number of midwives provided with cars or car allowances as at 31st December, 1948
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
Counties
Aberdeen 771 — 55 43
Angus 350 — 25 19
Argyll 180 — 48 26
Ayr 1,404 — 70 30
Banff 149 — 21 14
Berwick — — 11 11
Bute 25 — 5 5
Caithness 89 — 15 15
Clackmannan 316 1 14 Nil
Dumfries 61 — 21 17
Dunbarton 793 55 30 6
East Lothian — — 17 8
Fife 122 6 73 31
Inverness 129 — 61 35
Kincardine 228 — 17 12
Kirkcudbright 85 — 12 12
Lanark 3,373 — 73 20
Midlothian 535 — 30 22
Moray and Nairn 30 — 24 14
Orkney 30 — 15 11
Peebles 7 — 6 5
Perth and Kinross 221 — 50 41
Renfrew (including Port Glasgow) 911 — 35 10
Ross and Cromarty 166 — 47 21
Roxburgh 59 — 17 11
Selkirk — — 6 2
Stirling 717 — 36 11
Sutherland 75 — 16 15
West Lothian 868 — 35 5
Wigtown 369 5 18 11
Zetland 46 — 19 16
Burghs
Aberdeen 1,007 — 26 Nil
Airdrie 499 — 7 Nil
Arbroath 155 — 2 Nil
Ayr 356 — 6 1
Clydebank 331 — 7 1
Coatbridge 617 — 12 Nil
Dumbarton 322 — 4 Nil
Dumfries 58 — 2 Nil
Dundee 247 18 18 Nil
Dunfermline 104 — 8 1
Edinburgh 1,792 — 36 Nil
Falkirk 258 — 13 Nil
Glasgow 6,487 — 128 Nil
Greenock 961 — 14 Nil
Hamilton 457 — 6 Nil
Inverness 109 — 5 Nil
Kilmarnock 180 — 6 1
Kilkcaldy 306 — 8 1
Motherwell and Wishaw 265 — 9 Nil
Paisley 683 20 9 Nil
Perth 88 15 4 Nil
Port Glasgow Included in Renfrew County
Rutherglen 159 — 6 Nil
Stirling 124 — 7 1
Total for Scotland *27,674 120 1,265 †505
*The total number of domiciliary births during the year was 56,685, at 29,011 of which a doctor was actually present.
†Midwives not provided with cars or car allowances use either local public transport, cycles, contractual hiring arrangements or local authority transports.