HC Deb 15 June 1993 vol 226 c505W
Mr. Aspinwall

To ask the Secretary of State for Health is she will state the number of cases of notifiable diseases reported in the County of Avon in 1992, by category.

Mr. Sackville

The information is shown in the table.

Number (Provisional) of Notifiable Diseases reported in the County of Avon in 1992
Total
Food poisoning 1,130
Dysentery 271
Rubella 137
Viral hepatitis 120
Scarlet Fever 103
Measles 98
All meningitis 69
Tuberculosis 52
Mumps 43
Whooping Cough 23
Malaria 18
Meningococcal septicaemia 6
Ophthalmia neonatorum 5
Typhoid fever 2
Leptospirosis 1
Tetanus 0
Acute poliomyelitis 0
Acute encephalitis 0
Cholera 0
Plague 0
Anthrax 0
Diphtheria 0
Smallpox 0
Yellow fever 0
Typhus 0
Relapsing fever 0
Rabies 0
Viral haemorrhagic fever 0