Mr. T. Morrisasked the Minister of Health whether there is any increase in the number of cases of infantile paralysis in this country; and whether he can give the number of such cases which have been recorded in each of the different counties of England and Wales?
38Wfigures for Special Areas forming part of an administrative county are therefore not available. Figures are given in the following table for the county boroughs which are scheduled as Special Areas and for the administrative counties containing Special Areas.
§ Sir K. WoodThe numbers of notified cases of acute poliomyelitis and acute polio-encephalitis are published in the Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales for the Year 2936 in the volume "Tables. Part I. Medical" Table 28 gives the total figures for a series of years, and Table 29 gives the figures for each county and county borough for the year 1936. The total number of cases of the two diseases notified during the current year up to the 30th October is approximately 705 as compared with an annual average of 698 for the last five years.