§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) men and (b) women were registered as suffering from (i) AIDS and (ii) HIV by London borough council authority in December 1997. [25432]
§ Ms JowellAt the end of December 1997, the number of men and women with AIDS reported voluntarily by 505W clinicians to the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (of the Public Health Laboratory Service) as resident in London boroughs and not known to have died is shown in the table. These figures are subject to some under-reporting and take no account of movement into and away from London after first report. Similar information for diagnosed HIV infection is not available. For reasons of confidentiality the figures are not shown separately by sex.
Local Authority Total Cases Barking and Dagenham 4 Barnet 67 Bexley 6 Brent 58 Bromley 16 Camden 162 City of London 4 City of Westminster 157 Croydon 47 Ealing 60 Enfield 24 Greenwich 27 Hackney 100 Hammersmith and Fulham 158 Haringey 101 Harrow 13 Havering 2 Hillingdon 20 Hounslow 39 Islington 132 Kensington and Chelsea 183 Kingston Upon Thames 15 Lambeth 230 Lewisham 64 Merton 36 Newham 79 Redbridge 18 Richmond Upon Thames 31 Southwark 111 Sutton 5 Tower Hamlets 76 Waltham Forest 44 Wandsworth 145 Note:
Excludes 105 residents in London, local authority not known.