§ Mr. Fowlerasked the Minister of Health (1) how many beds are at present in use in each of the hospitals in the administrative county of Shropshire, excluding maternity and geriatric hospitals ; how many people are waiting for admission to each of the hospitals within the administrative county of Shropshire, excluding maternity and geriatric hospitals.
§ Mr. LoughlinFor specialties other than maternity, and geriatric and chronic sick the position on 31st March, 1966 was as follows:—
Staffed allocated beds Numbers on waiting beds list Whitchurch Cottage Hospital 16 24 Oswestry and District Hospital 31 43 Market Drayton Cottage Hospital 16 — Ludlow and District Hospital 21 54 Ellesmere Cottage Hospital 13 — Stone House, Bishops Castle 4 — St. Catherine's, Clun Valley Cottage Hospital 1 — Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital,Shrewsbury 69 326 Copthorne Hospital, Shrewsbury 283 454 Cross Houses Hospital,Shrewsbury 60 278 Wrekin Hospital, Wellington 49 — Beeches Hospital, Ironbridge 27 — Royal Salop Infirmary,Shrewsbury 219 2,576 Shelton Hospital, Shrewsbury 849 — Bridgnorth and South Shropshire Infirmary 42 116 Shifnal and District Cottage Hospital 14 89 The Lady Forester Hospital,Broseley 16 35 The Lady Forester Hospital,Much Wenlock 16 2 Cheshire Joint Sanatorium,near Market Drayton 153 — Annabelle Lady Boughey Cottage Hospital, Newport 15 9 Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital,Oswestry 454 503