§ Lord Plantasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will state the incidence of TB cases notified during the last three years for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, and also say whether there has been an increase of notifications in the East End of London.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Lord Trefgarne)The information requested is shown in the following table.
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NOTIFICATIONS OF TUBERCULOSIS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1980–1982 1980 1981 1982* England 8,752 7,805 7,804 Scotland 1,096 918 910 Northern Ireland 205 177 157 Wales 390 325 323 *The 1982 figures are provisional. New notification recommendations operating in England and Wales from January 1982 advised that deaths involving tuberculosis, where notification had not been previously made, should be included in the statistics. For comparability, notifications after death in Scotland have been excluded from the figures for 1980 (42) and 1981 (54) but included for 1982 (45).
NOTIFICATION OF TUBERCULOSIS IN THE EAST END OF LONDON 1980–1982 1980 1981 1982* Tower Hamlets 110 101 93 Hackney 117 90 61 Newham 183 184 164 *The 1982 figures are provisional.