§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many deaths from leukaemia have occurred among nurses, orderlies, hospital cleaners, dental assistants, x-ray technicians and medical research workers during each of the latest 10 years.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergLeukaemia deaths by occupation unit are available only at the time of the production of the Registrar General's decennial supplement on occupational mortality. The latest available figures are for 1970–72 and are shown in the following table. There are no single occupational units which contain hospital cleaners or medical research workers. The figures for the decennial supplement based on the 1981 census will not be available before 1985
Number of deaths* from Leukaemia for specified occupations units of men, married and single women, 1970–72—England and Wales Occupation Unit Men Married women † Single women‡ Hospital or ward orderlies; ambulance men 3 — — Nurses 4 11 14 Radiographers (medical and industrial) — — 1 Medical workers not elsewhere classified (including dental assistants) — — — * At ages 15–64 years. † By own occupation. ‡ Deaths of widowed and divorced women are not analysed by specific occupationunits.