§ Ms HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the notification rate of tuberculosis by health authorities in each of the last five years. [12620]
§ Mr. HoramThe figures are shown in the table
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All tuberculosis rates per 100,000 population (excluding chemoprophylaxis) 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 Provisional RHA Northern 7.60 8.65 8.22 6.29 6.83 Yorkshire 13.31 10.57 12.57 10.75 12.15 Trent 9.46 8.87 10.87 9.60 10.52 East Anglian 4.03 3.69 3.39 2.87 4.23 North-west Thames 22.13 25.61 24.17 28.35 30.21 North-east Thames 19.99 22.35 21.14 23.93 23.51 South-east Thames 9.88 10.32 11.41 11.45 10.97 South-west Thames 7.73 8.14 9.07 8.78 8.45 Wessex 3.33 3.41 3.65 4.03 5.10 Oxford 7.19 7.48 8.21 5.32 7.96 South Western 3.61 4.10 4.65 5.37 4.54 West Midlands 15.55 16.47 14.90 13.79 12.50 Mersey 4.55 5.64 7.42 4.27 6.14 North Western 13.76 15.80 15.08 13.10 12.36 Wales 5.74 6.93 6.85 6.21 6.18 England and Wales 10.64 11.31 11.51 10.83 11.18