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Mr. Dempsey
asked the Minister of Health if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT figures showing the average ratio of effective nursing staff to patients in each of the following types of hospital, namely: long stay (geriatric), tuberculosis, maternity, and infectious diseases.
Miss Pitt
The information is not available exactly in the form requested but I can give the following:
| Type of Hospital | Effective nursing staff at 30th September, 1961, per 100 average daily occupied beds | |
| Chronic | … | 36·0 |
| Tuberculosis and Chest | … | 46·1 |
| Maternity: | ||
| (a) Nursing staff | … | 26·2 |
| (b) Midwifery staff | … | 63·6 |
| Isolation | … | 87·5 |
| WALES | GREAT BRITAIN | ||||||||
| Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | ||||||
| Year | Number obtaining apprenticeships | Percentage of total entering employment | Number obtaining apprenticeships | Percentage of total entering employment | Number obtaining apprenticeships | Percentage of total entering employment | Number obtaining apprenticeships | Percentage of total entering employment | |
| 1956 | … | 2,864 | 22·0 | 341 | 2·9 | 93,213 | 37·7 | 15,901 | 6·5 |
| 1957 | … | 2,894 | 22·4 | 393 | 3·2 | 95,184 | 36·6 | 16,851 | 7·0 |
| 1958 | … | 2,707 | 21·2 | 385 | 3·2 | 93,212 | 34·4 | 17,352 | 6·9 |
| 1959 | … | 3,323 | 23·2 | 505 | 3·7 | 98,701 | 33·6 | 20,631 | 7·4 |
| 1960 | … | 3,421 | 23·8 | 486 | 3·9 | 103,004 | 36·0 | 19,951 | 7·6 |
| 1961 | … | 4,230 | 28·2 | 647 | 4·7 | 114,729 | 37·9 | 20,547 | 7·2 |