§ Mr. Tom Boardmanasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the country of origin of each of the cases of leprosy notified within the United Kingdom during the last five years.
§ Mr. CrossmanThe country of origin of patients is not recorded either on the notification form or in the confidential register kept by my Department. However information otherwise available gives the countries of previous residence of 115 of the 280 cases notified in England and Wales since the beginning of 1964, as follows:
Asia India 33 Pakistan 15 "Far East" 3 Burma 2 Vietnam 2 Hong Kong 2 Indonesia 1 Korea 1 Ceylon 1 Malaya 2 Thailand 1 Formosa 1 Africa Nigeria 12 Uganda 3 Ghana 2 Kenya 2 Cameroons 1 Rhodesia 1 Egypt 1 "Central Africa 1 West Indies Jamaica 7 Trinidad 5 Guyana 4 "West Indies" 1 Barbados 1 St. Kitts 1 Europe Malta 5 Cyprus 2 Spain 1 Oceania Fiji 1 In addition there is presumptive evidence in 99 of the remaining cases that they may have had associations with the following countries:
India 52 Moslem countries 42 Africa 3 China 1 Greece 1 No relevant information is available about the other 66 cases.