§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by district health authority in the counties of Yorkshire and Humberside, the number of cases of meningitis reported during(a) 1989 and (b) the current year to date.
§ Mr. DorrellThe exact information requested is not available.
Notifications of meningitis are made on a local authority basis. It is not possible to accurately aggregate these to district health authority boundaries. Provisional data for those local authorities within Yorkshire and Humberside are shown in the table.
Notifications of all forms of meningitis, and meningococcal meningitis by county/county districts in Yorkshire and Humberside region for 1989 and 19901 Area All forms of meningitis Meningococcal meningitis 1989 19901 1989 19901 Yorkshire and Humberside 329 122 106 57 County/County District South Yorkshire 94 41 39 16 Barnsley 13 4 6 2 Doncaster 23 10 17 8 Rotherham 20 10 4 3 Sheffield 38 17 12 3 West Yorkshire 148 39 37 19 Bradford 30 13 11 6 Calderdale 14 4 4 4 Kirklees 16 3 9 2 Leeds 66 13 7 5 Wakefield 22 6 6 2 Humberside 59 25 20 13 Boothferry 3 3 2 — Cleethorpes 2 — — — East Yorkshire 4 5 1 5 East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley 4 4 1 1 Glanford 4 — — — Great Grimsby 6 6 4 5 Holderness 4 — 1 — Kingston upon Hull 26 7 9 2 Scunthorpe 6 — 2 — North Yorkshire 28 17 10 9 Craven 1 1 1 — Hambleton 1 1 — — Harrogate 3 2 1 1 Richmondshire 1 3 1 2 Ryedale 2 — — — Scarborough 11 4 1 1 Selby 5 5 3 5 York 4 1 3 — 1 Provisional data for 1 January to 4 May 1990.