Deprived Areas (Hansard, 23 May 1994)

§ Mr. Sackville

The 10 highest scoring district health authorities in England using the Department of the Environment's index of local conditions, applied to district health authority boundaries as they were on 1 April 1992, were:

Highest scoring DHAs using DoE Index of Local Conditions

Newham (highest)
Lewisham and North Southwark
City and Hackney
Tower Hamlets
Camberwell
Bloomsbury and Islington
West Lambeth
Parkside
Waltham Forest
Haringey

Note: This table uses 1991 census data.

Source: Department of Health.

The ten DHAs with the highest birth rates¹ in 1991 were:

District health authorities

East Birmingham
Newham
North Manchester
West Birmingham
Tower Hamlets
Bradford
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale
Blackburn, Hyndbum and Ribble Valley
City and Hackney
Rochdale

¹This ranking has been constructed using the total period fertility rate (TPFR) which is derived by summing the fertility rates for a given year (live births per woman) by five-year age-groups up to the age of which the childbearing lifespan of women is effectively finished, taken to be age 50. Hence it is a summary measure of the overall level of the year's age-specific fertility rates. The TPFR indicates the average number of children which would be born per woman if a group of women were to experience the age-specific 30W fertility rates of the calendar year in question throughout their childbearing lives.

Source: OPCS Fertility Statistics Unit.

The 10 family health services authorities with the highest recorded number of new cases of tuberculosis in 1991—this information is not available by district health authority—were:

Birmingham
Brent and Harrow
Bradford
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham
Leicestershire
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow
Lancashire
City and East London
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster
Enfield and Haringey¹
Redbridge and Waltham Forest¹
¹ Joint tenth.

Source: OPCS Communicable Diseases HMSO Series MB2 1993.