HC Deb 15 November 1989 vol 160 c341W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the number of reported cases of salmonella poisoning in England and Wales for 1989.

Mr. Freeman

The provisional number of reported cases of salmonella in humans reported in the period January to September 1989 is 21,843. This figure was published on 30 October in the "Update on salmonella infection" produced jointly by the public health laboratory service and the state veterinary service, a copy of which is in the Library.