HC Deb 23 May 1990 vol 173 cc194-5W
Mr. Wigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table showing the number of cases of meningitis newly diagnosed in Wales in each of the past 10 years, if possible by the various categories of meningitis which are indentifiable.

Mr. David Hunt

The available data are given in the following table:

Notifications of Acute Meningitis to Office of Population Census and Surveys
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 11989
Meningococcal 42 41 23 32 34 39 67 71 102 91
Pneumococcal 2.. 2.. 6 4 7 7 9 6 9 12
Influenzal 2.. 2.. 12 19 13 11 28 29 34 41
Viral 2.. 2.. 10 5 10 13 21 9 21 8
Other Specified 75 28 17 9 7 6 12 13 34 27
Other Unspecified 36 15 6 2 7 8 10 10 13 8

Sources: 1980–87—Communicable Disease Statistics (Series MB2 Nos. 7–13).

1988–89—Unpublished figures from Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.

1Provisional.

2..—Not available.