§ Mr. Russell Johnstonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the number of children in schools in Scotland who are classified as educationally sub-normal; and whether he will publish a table indicating their dispersal, county by county.
§ Mr. RossThe total number of mentally handicapped children attending special schools—including occupational centres—at January, 1964, the latest date for which full figures are available, was 8,131. Details are given in the following table:
Area Special Schools Occupational Centres COUNTIES Aberdeen … 92 — Angus … 67 18 Argyll … — — Ayr … 395 100 Banff … 75 — Berwick … 26 — Bute … — — Caithness … 10 — Clackmannan … 47 20 Dumfries … 75 22 Dunbarton … 170 78 East Lothian … 76 6 Fife … 306 152 Inverness … 68 — Kincardine … — — Kirkcudbright … 35 — Lanark … 491 225 Midlothian … 137 44 Moray and Nairn … 28 20 Orkney … — — Peebles … 10 8 Perth and Kinross … 48 26 Renfrew … 417 108 Ross arid Cromarty … 34 21 Roxburgh … 30 12 Selkirk … 28 — Stirling … 165 34 Sutherland … — — West Lothian … 76 — Wigtown … 40 — Zetland … — — BURGHS Aberdeen … 277 78 Dundee … 340 88 Edinburgh … 419 112 Glasgow … 2,524 453 Total (Scotland) … 6,506 1,625