§ Dr. Dickson Mabonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide a table in the OFFICIAL REPORT showing the ratio of the number of school children to each full-time dental officer in each local authority area at the nearest convenient date.
§ Mr. NobleThe following table shows (to the nearest hundred) the number of school children to each dental officer, in44W each education authority area in Scotland at 31st July, 1962. Two part-time officers each working half time in the school dental service are reckoned as one
Cities Number of Children to each Dental Officer(To nearest 100) Aberdeen 11,300 Dundee 5,300 Edinburgh 3,700 counties Aberdeen 5,900 Angus 3,800 Argyll 4,500 Ayr 7,800 Banff 4,200 Berwick 1,900 Bute 4,900 Caithness 3,600 Clackmannan 7,100 Dumfries 3,800 Dunbarton 2,800 East Lothian 4,400 Fife 5,500 Inverness 2,200 Kincardine 3,200 Kirkcudbright 2,400 Lanark 9,100 Midlothian 2,200 Moray and Nairn 3,400 Orkeny 2,300 Peebles 2,200 Perth and Kinross 3,600 Renfrew 5,400 Ross and Cromarty 2,700 Roxburgh 3,200 Selkirk 3,300 Stirling 4,000 Sutherland 2,400 West Lothian 2,300 Wigtown 2,700 Zetland 1,600