HC Deb 08 February 1972 vol 830 cc317-8W
Mr. Weitzman

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether, in view of the report of the National Innovations Centre, a copy of which is in his posses-

County Boroughs Population Home Nurses* Health Visitors* Total Population per Head of Staff
Barnsley … … … 75,040 15.5 9.0 24.5 3,063
Barrow-in-Furness … … 63,860 13.3 6.1 19.4 3,292
Bath … … … 85,600 23.0 10.3 33.3 2,571
Birkenhead … … … 138,090 20.8 19.6 40.4 3,418
Birmingham … … … 1,013,420 224.0 150.7 374.7 2,705
Blackburn … … … 101,130 27.0 19.9 46.9 2,156
Blackpool … … … 149,770 42.0 18.4 60.4 2,480
Bolton … … … 154,360 16.0 14.4 30.4 5,078
Bootle … … … 74,310 14.8 13.3 28.1 2,645
Bournemouth … … 148,990 28.0 17.3 45.3 3,289
Bradford … … … 294,740 49.0 42.5 91.5 3,221
Brighton … … … 163,860 46.0 34.5 80.5 2,036
Bristol … … … 426,170 80.0 62.1 142.1 2,999
Burnley … … … 76,130 15.5 7.5 23.0 3,310
Burton-upon-Trent … … 50,540 11.0 3.7 14.7 3,438
Bury … … … 68,130 18.5 9.5 28.0 2,433
Canterbury … … … 35,530 7.9 4.6 12.5 2,842
Carlisle … … … 71,820 15.0 9.2 24.2 2,968
Chester … … … 62,700 10.0 7.9 17.9 3,503
Coventry … … … 333,000 59.0 45.2 104.2 3,196
Darlington … … … 85,900 16.0 8.6 24.6 3,492
Derby … … … 219,320 37.3 17.9 55.2 3,973
Dewsbury … … … 51,130 11.8 7.0 18.8 2,720
Doncaster … … … 81,800 18.0 5.5 23.5 3,481
Dudley … … … 185,390 28.5 24.8 53.3 3,478
Eastbourne … … … 68,810 26.6 10.0 36.6 1,880
Exeter … … … 93,800 28.0 14.5 42.5 2,207
Gateshead … … … 94,680 21.5 10.9 32.4 2,922
Gloucester … … … 89,980 20.0 9.4 29.4 3,061
Great Yarmouth … … 49,920 12.5 7.7 20.2 2,471
Grimsby … … … 95,610 16.3 9.8 26.1 3,663
Halifax … … … 91,040 20.5 7.0 27.5 3,311
Hartlepool … … … 97,110 25.0 18.4 43.4 2,238
Hastings … … … 72,770 17.1 10.0 27.1 2,685
Huddersfield … … … 130,560 22.2 17.8 40.0 3,264
Ipswich … … … 122,700 25.0 16.2 41.2 2,978
Kingston-upon-Hull … … 284,680 41.0 29.5 70.5 4,038
Leeds … … … 501,080 76.5 75.0 151.5 3,308
Leicester … … … 282,000 71.2 50.8 122.0 2,312
Lincoln … … … 74,090 14.0 8.6 22.6 3,278

sion, that a pilot scheme at Hull has shown that the installation of free or subsidised telephones for old people resulted in halving their death rate, he will take urgent steps to press local authorities to provide telephones under the provisions of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act, 1970.

Mr. Alison

I would refer the hon. Member to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Mrs. Knight) on 4th February.—[Vol. 830, c.223.]