§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) for the following counties—Official Report, 21st February 1978, column 587—East Sussex, Isle of Wight, Dorset, West Sussex, Devon and Tyne and Wear, if he will give in tabular form the age distribution of the cancer cases and the principal types of cancer involved in rank order;
(2) for the following counties-Official Report, 21st February 1978, column 587-Berkshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire, if he will give in tabular form the age distribution of the cancer cases and the principal types of cancer involved in rank order.
§ Mr. MoyleDeaths from cancer (ICD 140–209) in 1976 were as follows:
3. Stomach (ICD 151)
4. Breast (ICD 174)
The same sites led in the remaining counties but ranks 3 and 4 were transposed with breast ranking 3 and stomach 4, except that in Wiltshire the two sites ranked equal 3.