§ 88. Mr. Yatesasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the proportion of doctors to the population in the Colonies and Protectorates as a whole, and, secondly, in each Colony and Protectorate.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe total number of doctors, including those who do not hold fully registrable qualifications but are licensed to practise, is approximately 6,000. This represents an average of 12,500 people for each practitioner for the Colonial Territories as a whole.
170WThe following are the figures for each of the Territories (based on latest available information and in most cases approximate estimates):
Territory Number of people to each practitioner East and Central Africa: Kenya 10,000 Uganda 23,000 Tanganyika 20,000 Zanzibar and Pemba 6,200 Northern Rhodesia 11,100 Nyasaland 15,700 Somaliland Protectorate 64,000 West Africa: Gambia 27,800 Gold Coast (including Togoland) 22,500 Nigeria (including Cameroons) 58,200 Sierra Leone 30,800 Eastern: Federation of Malaya 8,500 Singapore 2,700 Brunei 10,000 North Borneo 11,000 Sarawak 15,200 Hong Kong 4,200 Mediterranean: Cyprus 1,600 Gibraltar 1,140 Malta and Gozo 1,100 West Indies: Barbados 2,900 British Guiana 3,140 British Honduras 4,000 Jamaica (including dependencies) 3,800 Leeward Islands: Antigua 3,700 Montserrat 3,400 St. Kitts-Nevis 3,400 Virgin Islands 4,600 Trinidad and Tobago 2,900 Windward Islands: Dominica 7,000 Grenada 5,400 St. Lucia 10,200 St. Vincent 6,500 Western Pacific: Fiji 2,900 British Solomon Islands 7,000 Gilbert and Ellice Islands 1,700 New Hebrides 3,500 Tonga 2,600 Atlantic and Indian Oceans: Bahamas 2,100 Bermuda 1,100 Falkland Islands 500 St. Helena 2,400 Aden (Colony) 2,200 Mauritius 5,800 Seychelles 4,100