HC Deb 17 November 1976 vol 919 cc627-8W
Mr. Shersby

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many cases of leprosy have been notified in the United Kingdom for each of the past five years.

Mr. Moyle

The numbers of new cases of leprosy registered in the United Kingdom are:

1971 43
1972 30
1973 39
1974 35
1975 22
1976 (to date) 18

No case of indigenously contracted leprosy has been reported since the disease became notifiable in 1951.

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