§ Mr. Boardmanasked the Minister of Health to present a table showing how the four surgeons exclusively employed on thoracic surgery in the Manchester Region compare with the number so employed in each other region, and giving the estimated population figures in each case.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodThe figures are as follows:
Region Number of surgeons Estimated population (Mid 1953) Newcastle 6 2,911,200 Leeds 6 3,044,900 Sheffield 7 4,172,700 East Anglia 4 1,462,900 N.W. Metropolitan 9 3,874,600 N.E. Metropolitan 5 3,039,800 S.E. Metropolitan 6 3,197,400 S.W. Metropolitan 9 4,620,900 Oxford 2 1,458,000 South Western 7 2,768,200 Welsh 5 2,594,000 Birmingham 8 4,470,000 Manchester 4 4,372,800 Liverpool 6 2,102,600 NOTES:
1. The figures include surgeons employed at teaching hospitals except in London, since these do not serve any one region.
2. The figures do not distinguish between whole-time andpart-time appointments.
3. In addition to the above there are in some regions surgeons engaged in thoracic surgery and in other branches of surgery.