§ Mrs. FyfeTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the total number of deaths each year since 1990 for(a) tuberculosis, (b) malignant neoplasm of the cervix, (c) Hodgkin's disease, (d) chronic rheumatic heart disease, (e) all respiratory diseases, (f) asthma, (g) appendicitis, (h) abdominal hernia, (i) cholelithiases and cholecistitis and (j) maternal deaths for each health board area.
§ Mr. StewartThe figures requested are given in the tables:
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Deaths from selected causes in each Health Board Area 1992 ICD Cause of Death Health Board Area 1992 Scotland Borders Forth Valley Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Highland Lothian Tayside Orkney Shetland Western Isles Argyll and Clyde Ayrshire and Arran Greater Glasgow Lanarkshire 010–018 Tuberculosis 46 2 4 2 3 1 — 5 2 — — 1 7 2 9 8 180 Malignant neoplasm of cervix 183 2 16 9 13 11 4 30 16 — — 2 13 13 32 22 201 Hodgkin's disease 38 2 3 3 1 4 — 9 4 — — — 1 4 4 4 393–398 Chronic rheumatic heart disease 186 — 10 6 13 15 5 37 7 1 — — 16 7 49 20 460–519 Diseases of the respiratory system 6,999 149 368 182 480 609 227 936 580 28 29 58 569 480 1,559 745 493 Asthma 115 5 10 3 5 16 4 17 10 1 — — 4 15 16 9 540–543 Appendicitis 10 — — 1 —. — — — — — — — 3 — 2 4 550–553 Hernia of the abdominal cavity 53 1 2 2 2 6 4 5 — — 1 1 6 2 11 10 574, Cholelithiasis and 49 2 1 2 1 3 5 4 4 — — — 8 — 15 4 575.0, cholecystitis 575.1 630–676 Maternal deaths 7 — — — — 1 — 1 — — — — 1 — 2 2