§ Mr. Skinnerasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the mortality figures for the latest available date attributable to infective and parasitic diseases contracted at the workplace.
§ Mr. WaddingtonDeaths from disease are recorded as attributable to occupational causes only where industrial death benefit is paid—the "prescribed" diseases—or where notification is made under the Factories Act 1961—the "notifiable" disease. In 1977, the latest year for which full information is readily available, there were two deaths recorded from a disease of an infective or parasitic nature, the disease in both cases being tuberculosis.