§ Mr. Canavanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many women resident in the postal districts FK4, FK5 and FK6 have had (a) miscarriages and (b) abortions in each of the past 12 years; and how these figures compare with the corresponding figures for the whole of Scotland.
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§ Mr. John MacKayThe only statistics available centrally on miscarriages are those obtained from the hospital records of patients treated for spontaneous abortion. Hospital records were not post-coded prior to 1975; but since that date the number of patients treated in hospital for spontaneous abortion was as follows:
Postcodes FK4, 5, 6
All Scotland 1975 56 6,952 1976 54 6,669 1977 64 6,625 1978 57 6,980 1979 61 6,471 1980 63 7,184 1981 64 6,988 1982 53 6,771 In addition to spontaneous abortions, therapeutic abortions were performed on the following number of patients: 1975 32 7,327 1976 44 7,219 1977 42 7,334 1978 48 7,451 1979 48 7,784 1980 58 7,905 1981 49 9,007 1982 51 8,425 Information is not yet available centrally for later years.