§ Mr. Clark Hutchisonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he can now give the figures of recorded injuries caused by fireworks during the last guising season.
§ Mr. Gordon Campbell49 persons received hospital treatment for injuries caused by fireworks during the period 11th October to 7th November, 1970, compared with 90 in the corresponding period in 1969. Detailed information is given below.
FIREWORK INJURIES IN SCOTLAND 1970 1969 A. Place where injury occurred: (i) Family or private party 10 21 (ii) Public or semi public party in park or open space 6 5 (iii) Casual incident in street 26 41 (iv) Other place 5 10 (v) Unknown 2 13 B. Type of firework involved: (i) Banger 20 42 (ii) Rocket 7 8 (iii) Jumping Cracker 2 6 (iv) Display firework e.g. Roman Candle or Coloured fires, etc. 7 9 (v) Home-made or Extracted Powder 1 1 (vi) Other than above 2 6 (vii) Unknown 10 18 C. Age group of persons injured: (i) Over 21 10 9 (ii) 16–20 2 3 (iii) 13–15 12 17 (iv) Under 13 25 61 D. Severity of injury: (i) Died 0 0 (ii) Detained more than one night 8 19 (iii) Other severe injury 1 (iv) Minor injury 37 70 (v) Unknown 3 1 E. Additional detail: Eye injuries 15 30 Male 45 76 Female 4 11 Sex not recorded 0 3 Casualties on 5th November 24 40