HC Deb 09 May 1973 vol 856 c140W
Mr. Roderick

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish the numbers of known cases of tuberculosis in each of the past five years in England and in Wales, separately.

Sir K. Joseph

Notifications of all forms of tuberculosis were:

England Wales
1968 … 12,328 625
1969 … 11,559 605
1970 … 11,280 621
1971 … 11,137 569
1972 (provisional) … 10,565 506