§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report the up-to-date position regarding the perinatal mortality rate, the infant mortality rate, the rate per thousand of community health nurses, the rate per thousand of consultant obstetricians and the rate per thousand of paediatricians for each area health authority in Scotland.
§ Mr. FairgrieveThe information for 1980 is given in the following table:
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(a) (a) Health Boards Perinatal mortality* Infant mortality† Community health‡‡ nurses per thousand population Consultants** in obstetrics and gynecology per thousand populationt†† Consultantpaediatricians‡‡ per thousand population• Forth Valley 12 11 0.8 0.06 0.03 Grampian 8 9 0.9 0.05 0.06 Greater Glasgow 13 13 0.7 0.08 0.08 Highland 12 13 1.2 0.05 0.04 Lanarkshire 14 12 0.7 0.05 0.03 Lothian 12 13 0.6 0.07 0.08 Orkney 8 4 1.6 — — Shetland 16 13 1.7 — — Tayside 13 8 0.6 0.06 0.11 Western Isles 8 3 1.7 0.09 — SCOTLAND 13 12 0.7 0.06 0.06 (a) Sources—Registrar General for Scotland 1980 Statistics (Provisional)
Notes:
* Per 1,000 total births (perinatal mortality includes stillbirths).
† Per 1,000 live births.
‡There is no grade of "community health nurse"; for the purposes of this table the grades included under this heading are health visitor., district nurse, combined duties nurse and midwife.
** Consultant staff numbers at 30 September 1980 are provisional.
†† Estimated female population aged 15 years and over.
‡‡ Medical paediatrics only-surgical paediatrics not included.
• Estimated population aged 14 years and under.