§ Mrs. Bainasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will give, for Scot-land and each health board, the incidence of congenital rubella in 1977 and in 1978 to the latest date for which figures are available;
(2) if he will give the incidence of congenital malformations for Scotland and each health board area in 1977;
(3) if he will give the incidence of cerebral palsy in Scotland and in each health board area in 1977.
Health Boards Number of girls born (1963-67) vaccinated in 1977(A) Number of women born before 1963 vaccinated in 1977(B) Percentage of girls born in 1963 vaccinated by 31st December 1977 Argyll and Clyde* … … 2,648 287 86.2 Ayrshire and Arran … … 2,661 114 84.9 Borders … … 787 25 88.6 Dumfries and Galloway … … 1,216 53 84.9 Fife … … 1,927 398 73.9 Forth Valley … … 1,657 3 76.9 Grampian … … 2,924 127 79.5 Greater Glasgow … … 8,040 105 82.4 Highland … … 1,060 497 63.7 Lanarkshire … … 4,960 54 90.9 Lothian … … 2,496 130 (36.0)† Orkney … … 168 3 79.6 Shetland … … 395 193 85.8 Tayside … … 2,890 200 83.9 Western Isles … … 221 51 87.2 Scotland* … … 34,049 2,240 82.5‡ * Excludes 320 women ages unknown in columns (A) and (B) and a number of unrecorded vaccinations carried out in the city of Edinburgh. † Vaccination offered only to girls who are sero-negative in Edinburgh city. ‡ This estimate includes Lothian health board. Percentage figures for vaccinations are in relation to girls who reached their fourteenth birthday in 1977, regardless of the year in which they were vaccinated.