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| The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998 |
| Table 2B6 Maternity unit discharges, 1992-1997/98 |
1992 |
1993/94 |
1994/95 |
1995/96 1 |
1996/97 2 |
1997/98 2 |
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| All discharges | Number | 127,445 |
124,387 |
128,585 |
125,434 |
128,463 |
121,542 |
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| Mean Stay | 3.0 |
2.8 |
2.6 |
2.4 |
2.3 |
2.2 |
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| Antenatal discharges | Number | 52,523 |
53,710 |
58,281 |
57,791 |
61,744 |
59,966 |
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| Mean Stay | 1.3 |
1.1 |
0.9 |
0.9 |
0.8 |
0.7 |
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| Delivery discharges | Number | 64,222 |
60,283 |
59,587 |
59,309 |
58,266 |
54,261 |
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| Mean Stay | 4.7 |
4.5 |
4.3 |
4.2 |
4.1 |
4.0 |
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| of which: | Antenatal stay | Mean Stay | 1.1 |
1.1 |
1.0 |
1.0 |
1.0 |
0.9 |
| Postnatal stay | Mean Stay | 3.6 |
3.4 |
3.3 |
3.2 |
3.1 |
3.1 |
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| Postnatal discharges | Number | 4,603 |
4,218 |
4,662 |
4,448 |
4,170 |
3,884 |
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| Mean Stay | 2.7 |
2.6 |
2.4 |
2.3 |
2.3 |
2.2 |
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| Other 3 | Number | 6,097 |
6,176 |
6,055 |
4,727 |
5,076 |
4,176 |
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| Mean Stay | 1.3 |
1.0 |
0.9 |
0.9 |
0.7 |
0.8 |
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| Single births | 63,415 |
59,505 |
58,804 |
57,627 |
56,678 |
52,783 |
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| Percentage which were: | ||||||||
| Spontaneous | 72.6 |
72.6 |
72.2 |
72.2 |
71.7 |
70.8 |
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| Forceps | 10.2 |
8.8 |
8.1 |
7.5 |
7.2 |
6.8 |
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| Vacuum extraction | 1.7 |
2.6 |
3.3 |
3.7 |
4.0 |
4.3 |
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| Breech | 0.6 |
0.6 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
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| Caesarean | 14.8 |
15.4 |
15.8 |
16.0 |
16.6 |
17.6 |
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| Other | - |
0.1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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| All induced single births | 13,341 |
13,368 |
14,382 |
15,666 |
13,573 |
13,588 |
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| as % of all single births | 21.0 |
22.5 |
24.5 |
27.2 |
23.9 |
25.8 |
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Source: ISD Scotland, Common Services Agency |
| 1 Revised. |
| 2 Provisional. |
| 3 Mainly abortions (therapeutic and spontaneous). |
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