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Mr. Viant
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of the children under 15 years of age in each of the county council areas can be considered as having been inoculated against diphtheria; and what percentage of children under five years of age.
Mr. J. Stuart
Percentages of (a) children under 15 years of age, (b) children under five years of age in each of the county council areas in Scotland estimated at 31st December, 1953, as having been inoculated against diphtheria are as follow:
| County | Percentageofchildrenunder15 | Percentageofchildrenunder5 |
| Aberdeen | 75 | 66 |
| Angus | 69 | 79 |
| Argyll | 64 | 57 |
| Ayr | 81 | 74 |
| Banff | 67 | 74 |
| Berwick | 82 | 80 |
| Bute | 71 | 72 |
| Caithness | 86 | 85 |
| Clackmannan | 81 | 75 |
| Dumfries | 92 | 98 |
| Dunbarton | 79 | 64 |
| EastLothian | 74 | 92 |
| Fife | 66 | 79 |
| Inverness | 57 | 51 |
| Kincardine | 76 | 85 |
| Kirkcudbright | 83 | 74 |
| Lanark | 80 | 59 |
| Midlothian | 93 | 99 |
| MorayandNairn | 67 | 82 |
| Orkney | 45 | 34 |
| Peebles | 96 | 90 |
| PerthandKinross | 64 | 77 |
| Renfrew | 51 | 63 |
| RossandCromart | 61 | 42 |
| Roxburgh | 75 | 83 |
| Selkirk | 57 | 56 |
| Stirling | 80 | 87 |
| Sutherland | 63 | 73 |
| WestLothian | 77 | 98 |
| Wigtown | 81 | 79 |
| Zetland | 71 | 51 |