§ Mr. DevlinTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of salmonella enteritidis have been reported on a monthly basis for the last two years; and how many of those cases were phage 4.
§ Mr. FreemanMonthly statistics are not available. Provisional figures by quarter are as follows:
Salmonella reports (cases and excreters) reported to the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre by quarter Total salmonella enteritidis Total phage type 4 1986 Q1 337 108 Q2 707 357 Q3 1,684 1,009 Q4 1,292 797 1987 Q1 607 324 Q2 1,108 771 Q3 2,365 1,557 Q4 1,946 1,209 1988 Q1 842 598 Q2 2,241 1,429 Q3 5,271 3,555 Q4 4,889 3,480
§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the cases of salmonella food poisoning connected with eggs which were referred to in his Department's recent press advertisements, giving the number of people affected and the most likely source of the eggs in question in each case.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe number of reported cases of salmonella food poisoning connected with eggs in the first 10 months of 1988 is as follows:
Number of people affected January 27 February — March — April 60 May 302 June 159 July 207 August 145 September 114 October 127 Information is not available on the most likely source of the eggs in question in each case.