§ Mr. Manuelasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state, for each education authority area, the number of school dentists available, and the number of children who received no school dental examination, respectively.
§ Mr. MaclayThe following table shows the number of school dentists in each education authority area at July, 1958, and the number of school children not examined by the school dental service during 1957–58, the latest year for240W which complete figures are at present available.
Area Number of Schools Dentists Number of Children not examined Counties Aberdeen 4 12,476 Angus 4 6,749 Argyll 2 5,267 Ayr 11 39,585 Banff 3 1,018 Berwick 2 541 Bute 1 part-time 238 Caithness 1 2,256 Clackmannan 3 2,430 Dumfries 4 6,382 Dunbarton 10 20,023 East Lothian 2 5,427 Fife 13 (plus 1 part-time) 34,391 Inverness 4 (plus 1 part-time) 8,959 Kincardine 1 2,570 Kirkcudbright 1 999 Lanark 10 69,558 Midlothian and Peebles 11 12,796 Moray and Nairn Orkney 1 1,376 Perth and Kinross 4 16,149 Renfrew 11 38,029 Ross and Cromarty 2 7,302 Roxburgh and Selkirk 3 3,333 Stirling 6 9,905 Sutherland 1 709 West Lothian 5 9,896 Wigtown 3 2,053 Zetland 1 2,764 Burghs Aberdeen 3 16,931 Dundee 4 12,721 Edinburgh 18 35,352 Glasgow 18 136,613