HC Deb 18 February 1975 vol 886 cc332-4W
Mr. John Evans

asked 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. Owen

Data 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:

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
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.