asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a statement for the last convenient annual period for each local health authority area in Scotland, showing the number of domiciliary births attended by a midwife only; the number of such births in which analgesia was administered; the total number of midwives employed; and the number of these midwives provided with their own transport in the form either of a car or a car allowance.
The following table gives the information:
| Area | Number of Births where midwife alone was present at time of confinement 1947 | Cases in column (2) where analgesia administered | Number of domiciliary midwives employed 1947 | Number of midwives provided with cars or car allowances as at 31st December, 1948 |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
Counties
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| Aberdeen | 771 | — | 55 | 43 |
| Angus | 350 | — | 25 | 19 |
| Argyll | 180 | — | 48 | 26 |
| Ayr | 1,404 | — | 70 | 30 |
| Banff | 149 | — | 21 | 14 |
| Berwick | — | — | 11 | 11 |
| Bute | 25 | — | 5 | 5 |
| Caithness | 89 | — | 15 | 15 |
| Clackmannan | 316 | 1 | 14 | Nil |
| Dumfries | 61 | — | 21 | 17 |
| Dunbarton | 793 | 55 | 30 | 6 |
| East Lothian | — | — | 17 | 8 |
| Fife | 122 | 6 | 73 | 31 |
| Inverness | 129 | — | 61 | 35 |
| Kincardine | 228 | — | 17 | 12 |
| Kirkcudbright | 85 | — | 12 | 12 |
| Lanark | 3,373 | — | 73 | 20 |
| Midlothian | 535 | — | 30 | 22 |
| Moray and Nairn | 30 | — | 24 | 14 |
| Orkney | 30 | — | 15 | 11 |
| Peebles | 7 | — | 6 | 5 |
| Perth and Kinross | 221 | — | 50 | 41 |
| Renfrew (including Port Glasgow) | 911 | — | 35 | 10 |
| Ross and Cromarty | 166 | — | 47 | 21 |
| Roxburgh | 59 | — | 17 | 11 |
| Selkirk | — | — | 6 | 2 |
| Stirling | 717 | — | 36 | 11 |
| Sutherland | 75 | — | 16 | 15 |
| West Lothian | 868 | — | 35 | 5 |
| Wigtown | 369 | 5 | 18 | 11 |
| Zetland | 46 | — | 19 | 16 |
Burghs
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| Aberdeen | 1,007 | — | 26 | Nil |
| Airdrie | 499 | — | 7 | Nil |
| Arbroath | 155 | — | 2 | Nil |
| Ayr | 356 | — | 6 | 1 |
| Clydebank | 331 | — | 7 | 1 |
| Coatbridge | 617 | — | 12 | Nil |
| Dumbarton | 322 | — | 4 | Nil |
| Dumfries | 58 | — | 2 | Nil |
| Dundee | 247 | 18 | 18 | Nil |
| Dunfermline | 104 | — | 8 | 1 |
| Edinburgh | 1,792 | — | 36 | Nil |
| Falkirk | 258 | — | 13 | Nil |
| Glasgow | 6,487 | — | 128 | Nil |
| Greenock | 961 | — | 14 | Nil |
| Hamilton | 457 | — | 6 | Nil |
| Inverness | 109 | — | 5 | Nil |
| Kilmarnock | 180 | — | 6 | 1 |
| Kilkcaldy | 306 | — | 8 | 1 |
| Motherwell and Wishaw | 265 | — | 9 | Nil |
| Paisley | 683 | 20 | 9 | Nil |
| Perth | 88 | 15 | 4 | Nil |
| Port Glasgow | Included in Renfrew County | |||
| Rutherglen | 159 | — | 6 | Nil |
| Stirling | 124 | — | 7 | 1 |
| Total for Scotland | *27,674 | 120 | 1,265 | †505 |
*The total number of domiciliary births during the year was 56,685, at 29,011 of which a doctor was actually present. | ||||
| †Midwives not provided with cars or car allowances use either local public transport, cycles, contractual hiring arrangements or local authority transports. | ||||