§ Ms. PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of the population were notified drug addicts in(a) Riverside, (b) Parkside, (c) Bloomsbury, (d) Islington, (e) City and Hackney, (f) Newham, (g)
Number of Notifications to the Home Office; England and selected District Health Authorities1, January to December 1991; and rate per million population District Health Authority All notifications Mid 1991 population Rate per million population Riverside 621 290,500 2,138 Parkside 821 432,600 1,898 Bloomsbury and Islington2 862 242,400 3,556 The City and Hackney 358 187,700 1,907 Newham 36 217,000 166 Tower Hamlets 280 165,000 1,697 West Lambeth 542 161,800 3,350 Lewisham and North Southwark 273 327,900 833 England 18,827 48,068,400 392 Source: Addicts Index 1991
Home Office
Department of Health (SD2C)
1 Note that an addict included under a particular district may not actually live there as the district quoted refers to the address of the notifying doctor.
2 Bloomsbury and Islington merged in September 1990.