§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he can now give the figures of recorded injuries
FIREWORKS ACCIDENTS IN SCOTLAND 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 A. Place where injury occurred (i) Family or private party 3 5 13 13 13 10 (ii) Public or semi-public party 4 7 7 16 7 6 (iii) Casual incident in street etc 17 18 26 21 24 26 (iv) Other place 4 5 9 5 6 5 (v) Unknown 10 9 8 9 5 2 B. Type of firework involved (i) Banger 12 9 23 22 18 20 (ii) Rocket 6 9 11 3 8 7 (iii) Jumping Cracker 0 1 1 2 5 2 (iv) Other flyabout (flying saucer, helicopter, whirlibird etc.) 2 2 Included in (vii) (v) Display firework (e.g. Roman Candle or Coloured First ect.) 2 8 14 8 9 7 (vi) Home made or extracted powder 3 2 2 2 2 1 (vii) Other than above 1 2 1 4 3 2 (viii) Unknown 12 11 11 23 10 10 C. Age group of persons injured (i) Over 21 6 3 7 7 4 10 (ii) 16–20 3 1 4 1 3 2 (iii) 13–15 9 10 17 13 17 12 (iv) Under 13 20 30 35 43 31 25 D. Severity of injury (i) Died 0 0 0 0 0 0 (ii) Detained more than one night 3 8 4 5 7 8 (iii) Sufficient to cause absence from work or equivalent 3 6 10 4 0 1 (vi) Minor injury 30 29 46 51 48 37 (v) Unknown 2 1 3 4 0 3 E. Total number of Accidents 38 44 63 64 55 49