§ Mrs. Bridget PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what information is held by her Department on the number of children infected by tuberculosis in(a) each of the London boroughs and (b) England.
§ Mr. Sackville[pursuant to his reply, 26 April 1994, c. 152–3]: I regret that there were inaccuracies in my previous reply.
Revised information is given in the table. Occasional variations in the figures appear because some physicians continue to notify children who are receiving chemoprophylaxis rather than full therapy for tuberculosis. The Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys excludes these as far as possible from the aggregated data but it is not always easy to identify them.
The team running the 1993 survey of notifications at the Public Health Laboratory Service is examining continuing ambiguities in the notification system for tuberculosis and will report later this year. Any changes in the surveillance of tuberculosis will be discussed then.
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Number of cases of tuberculosis for children aged 0–16 years in England and London boroughs for 1990–92 1990 1991 1992 England 443 506 561 City of London 0 0 0 Barking and Dagenham London Borough 2 0 1 Barnet London Borough 5 4 16 Bexley London Borough 2 4 2 Brent London Borough 2 12 9 Bromley London Borough 0 3 3 Camden London Borough 2 10 7 Croydon London Borough 6 4 6 Ealing London Borough 2 7 9 Enfield London Borough 1 4 2 Greenwich London Borough 5 2 4 Hackney London Borough 6 7 7 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough 4 0 3 Haringey London Borough 3 4 8 Harrow London Borough 1 5 4 Havering London Borough 0 0 1 Hillingdon London Borough 0 4 6 Hounslow London Borough 2 1 10 Islington London Borough 4 2 3 Kensington and Chelsea London Borough 6 3 0 Kingston upon Thames London Borough 0 0 0 Lambeth London Borough 3 2 8 Lewisham London Borough 6 1 1 Merton London Borough 1 1 0 Newham London Borough 13 13 9 Redbridge London Borough 6 7 2 Richmond upon Thames London Borough 0 0 0 Southwark London Borough 9 9 9 Sutton London Borough 1 2 0 Tower Hamlets London Borough 5 9 9 Waltham Forest London Borough 6 5 1 Wandsworth London Borough 0 3 1 City of Westminster London Borough 3 6 5 Note:
Although excluded as far as possible some of these include cases where chemoprophylaxis is being given rather than full therapy for tuberculosis.