HC Deb 23 July 1996 vol 282 cc220-1W
Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of(a) dysentery and (b) food poisoning there were in (i) York, (ii) North Yorkshire, (iii) Yorkshire and (iv) England in each year since 1990. [38926]

Mr. Horam

The information requested is published annually in series MB2 "Communicable disease statistics". The latest available publication is series MB2 No. 21 (1994), copies of which are available in the Library.

Data for 1995 are given in the table:

Dysentery Food poisoning (All)
York 3 109
North Yorkshire 15 1,266
Yorkshire1 681 8,832
England 4,373 75,499
1 Yorkshire is defined as the sum of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.