Medical Prescriptions (Hansard, 21 December 1967)

§ Mr. Ross:

The figures for prescriptions dispensed by chemists and appliance sup-pliers under the National Health Service over the past five years are as follows:

Year	Number of prescriptions per patient on doctors' lists	Average cost per prescription
1962	4.1	113.3d.
1963	4.2	116.9d.
1964	4.3	124.9d.
1965	5.0	129.4d.
1966	5.3	132.9d.

	Principal Roads	Non-Principal Roads
Local Highway Authority Counties	Improvement	Maintenance	Improvement	Maintenance	Total
	£	£	£	£	£
Aberdeen	…	…	13,260	46,145	2,630	21,300	83,335
Angus	…	…	2,700	45,450	2,900	38,150	89,200
Argyll	…	…	80,000	30,000	97,300	15,000	222,300
Ayr	…	…	1,000	140,000	34,000	—	175,000
Banff	…	…	18,200	30,700	31,600	19,300	99,800
Berwick	…	…	—	27,800	—	5,000	32,800
Bute	…	…	38,000	—	—	8,000	46,000
Caithness	…	…	—	21,000	—	—	21,000
Clackmannan	…	…	9,034	16,560	—	11,735	37,329
Dumfries	…	…	—	—	7,600	5,600	13,200
Dunbarton	…	…	10,000	14,500	1,500	—	26,000
East Lothian	…	…	—	9,300	—	—	9,300
Fife	…	…	7,000	83,400	9,800	5,900	106,100
Inverness	…	…	20,000	26,500	36,500	53,500	136,500
Kincardine	…	…	—	10,000	—	—	10,000
Kirkcudbright	…	…	—	37,040	—	2,160	39,200
Lanark	…	…	22,710	51,000	23,620	24,480	121,810
Midlothian	…	…	—	49,800	—	6,300	56,100
Moray and Nairn	…	…	—	24,800	8,200	42,237	75,237
Orkney	…	…	7,000	11,700	7,300	—	26,000
Peebles	…	…	18,766	47,780	—	42,500	109,046
Perth and Kinross	…	…	41,500	48,370	30,250	45,045	165,165
Renfrew	…	…	45,000	7,000	—	10,000	62,000
Ross and Cromarty	…	…	27,250	14,650	96,200	14,500	152,600
Roxburgh	…	…	—	42,500	—	79,264	121,764
Selkirk	…	…	—	4,000	—	23,000	27,000
Stirling	…	…	60,780	193,890	143,100	21,000	418,770
Sutherland	…	…	—	23,000	10,000	12,000	45,000
West Lothian	…	…	38,060	32,500	14,100	5,450	90,110
Wigtown	…	…	4,000	3,500	14,200	18,800	40,500
Zetland	…	…	12,000	8,000	—	8,000	28,000
Total Counties	…	…	£476,260	1,100,885	570,800	538,221	2,686,166