§ Mr. John Evansasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many notifiable diseases were recorded in each of the regional health authorities; and what were the figures for 1970, 1965, 1960, 1955 and 1950, respectively.
§ Dr. OwenData by hospital region are available only for the period from 1963 and for the areas of the former regional hospital boards. Notifications of infectious diseases in 1973 were as follows. Figures for previous years have been published in Table 31 of the Registrar General's Statistical Review of England and Wales, Part I: 333W
CORRECTED NOTIFICATIONS OF CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES BY HOSPITAL REGION FOR 1963, 1965, 1970 AND 1973 1973 Area Typhoid fever Paratyphoid fever Acute meningitis Scarlet fever Whooping cough Diphtheria Tetanus Ophthalmia neonatorum Dysentry (amoebic and bacillary) Measles Newcastle … … … 1 2 123 407 301 — — 7 346 5,625 Leeds* … … … 6 7 201 1,292 76 1 — 15 1,659 5,732 Sheffield* … … … 7 2 174 1,997 60 — — 57 629 17,504 East Anglian … … 7 2 51 330 75 — 1 6 214 7,148 North West Metropolitan* … 36 20 125 921 164 — 1 22 539 12,491 North East Metropolitan … 13 13 162 964 240 — 2 29 600 16,131 South East Metropolitan* … 12 7 135 746 214 — 4 21 292 13,230 South West Metropolitan* … 12 15 80 478 193 1 — 6 679 9,188 Wessex … … … 2 1 92 558 78 — 2 11 129 4,020 Oxford … … … 5 5 73 387 43 — — 2 76 3,888 South Western … … 2 4 117 547 137 — 3 8 372 9,763 Welsh … … … 4 9 225 567 38 — — 10 274 12,242 Birmingham … … … 18 9 172 971 196 — 6 88 1,421 20,870 Manchester* … … … 24 7 217 1,179 201 — 3 41 706 6,823 Liverpool … … … — 4 156 689 421 — — 43 96 7,827 334W
1973 Acute poliomyelitis Acute encephalitis Area Paralytic Non-paralytic Infective Post-infective Leptospirosis Infective jaundice Food poisoning Respiratory Tuberculosis Meninges and C.N.S. Other Newcastle … … … — — 1 1 1 413 388 640 3 110 Leeds* … … … — — 7 2 2 853 637 619 16 166 Sheffield* … … … 2 — 5 8 3 1,042 590 730 12 209 East Anglian … … — — 3 1 3 116 143 125 5 39 North West Metropolitan* … 1 — 12 13 — 583 757 1,185 12 374 North East Metropolitan … — — 6 7 — 384 553 695 5 245 South East Metropolitan* … — — 2 6 1 239 333 522 2 102 South West Metropolitan* … — 1 10 2 2 310 346 601 13 176 Wessex … … … — — 3 7 — 269 147 214 4 47 Oxford … … … — — 4 9 3 237 309 288 2 82 South Western … … 1 — 12 9 1 554 536 344 5 86 Welsh … … … — — 3 6 1 205 442 487 3 94 Birmingham … … … — — 6 8 1 586 802 1,023 4 335 Manchester* … … — — 5 — 2 1,538 739 891 11 240 Liverpool … … … — — 13 — 2 726 337 346 1 43 * Anthrax cases notified (3): Leeds 1, Manchester 1, North West Metropolitan 1. Smallpox cases notified (5): North West Metropolitan 4, South West Metropolitan 1. Cholera cases notified (5): Leeds 1, Sheffield 1, North West Metropolitan 1, South East Metropolitan 1, South West Metropolitan 1.