ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with sickness insurance work in Scotland and with the medical service of the highlands and islands, and also illustrates local services in Scotland. One hundred and ninety-four maternity and child welfare centres have been provided by local authorities in Scotland, and the number of attendances at these centres in 1926 was 448,695. Institutional provision is made by both public health and poor-law authorities, a position which will now be rectified. The general position as regards notification of cases, tuberculosis dispensaries, hospitals, and sanatoria is not very dissimilar from that in England. By the Scottish Public Health Act public health authorities are under an obligation to provide hospital accommodation for infectious diseases, and the position in England has recently been assimilated to this. The great teaching hospitals are associated with the medical schools at Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.
