§ Mr. MacGregorasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will list the number of recorded cases of whooping cough in the last 10 years and the number of known fatal cases and of brain damage and other disability cases resulting from the whooping cough vaccination.
§ Dr. OwenThe number of cases of whooping cough and deaths from the disease recorded in England and Wales for the last 10 years is as follows:
Year Notification Deaths 1964 31,609 44 1965 12,903 21 1966 19,386 23 1967 33,530 27 1968 17,367 15 1969 4,991 6 1970 16,597 15 1971 16,792 26 1972 2,069 2 1973 2,437 2 A total of 472 reports have been received for the period 1964–72 by the Committee on Safety of Medicines describing adverse reactions following the administration of vaccine containing a pertussis component though many of these were not severe. A total of 15 deaths were recorded as following such vaccination but not all were neecssarily due to it.