§ Dr. Dickson Mahonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will pro 144W vide a table in the OFFICIAL REPORT showing the ratio of the number of school children to each full-time dental officer in each local authority area at the nearest convenient date.
§ Mr. MaclayThe following table shows (to the nearest hundred) the number of school children to each dental officer*, in each local authority area in Scotland at 31st July, 1960.
Number of Children to each Dental Officer (To nearest 100) Cities Aberdeen 7,500 Dundee 5,400 Edinburgh 4,000 Glasgow 10,100 Counties Aberdeen 8,100 Angus 3,800 Argyll 4,400 Ayr 7,400 Banff 2,900 Berwick 3,700 Bute 6,000 Caithness 3,400 Clackmannan 3,700 Dumfries 3,700 Dunbarton 3,500 East Lothian 4,300 Fife 6,600 Inverness 2,900 Kincardine 3,400 Kirkcudbright 2,400 Lanark 8,500 Midlothian and Peebles 3,100 Moray and Nairn 5,100 Orkney 3,100 Perth and Kinross 4,100 Renfrew 5,100 Ross and Cromarty 2,600 Roxburgh and Selkirk 3,200 Stirling 5,500 Sutherland 2,300 West Lothian 3,400 Wigtown 1,800 Zetland 1,500 * Two part-timers each working half his time in the school dental service are reckoned as one.