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Major PAGET
asked the Minister of Pensions how many non-ex-service doctors and how many ex-service doctors are employed on the pensions medical boards in Glasgow?
Major TRYON
The total number of medical practitioners on the panel from which members of medical boards for this area are drawn is 172, of whom 85 per cent. are ex-service doctors.
| Region. | Total number of four year cases submitted for consideration for final awards under Section 4 (2) of the War Pensions Act, 1921. | Number and percentage recommended for final awards. | ||||||||
| Scotland | … | … | … | … | … | 6,870 | 3,544 | or | 51·6 | per cent. |
| Northern | … | … | … | … | … | 3,302 | 1,644 | „ | 49·8 | „ |
| N. Western | … | … | … | … | 9,588 | 5,509 | „ | 57·5 | „ | |
| Yorkshire | … | … | … | … | … | 2,788 | 1,676 | „ | 60·1 | „ |
| Wales | … | … | … | … | … | 2,921 | 1,431 | „ | 49·0 | „ |
| W. Midlands | … | … | … | … | 3,726 | 2,557 | „ | 68·6 | „ | |
| E. Midlands | … | … | … | … | 2,971 | 1,997 | „ | 67·2 | „ | |
| S. Western | … | … | … | … | 2,789 | 1,839 | „ | 65·9 | „ | |
| London | … | … | … | … | … | 11,248 | 6,659 | „ | 59·2 | „ |
| Ulster | … | … | … | … | … | 793 | 527 | „ | 66·5 | „ |
| Ireland, South | … | … | … | … | 1,184 | 731 | „ | 61·7 | „ | |
| Totals | … | … | 48,180 | 28,114 | „ | 58·4 | „ | |||