HC Deb 27 October 1994 vol 248 cc831-2W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the incidence of(a) toxoplasmosis and (b) congenital toxoplasmosis in each of the last 10 years.

Ordinary and day case admissions for England, 1988–89 to 1992–93 Mental illness, rates per head of population
1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93
London implementation zone 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.006
Northern 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.005
Yorkshire 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.004 0.005
Trent 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.005
East Anglian 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.004
North West Thames 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.004
North East Thames 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.005 0.005
South East Thames 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.004
South West Thames 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.005
Wessex 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.006 0.005
Oxford 0.003 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.004
South Western 0.006 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.005
West Midlands 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.004
Mersey 0.005 0.006 0.006 0.006 0.006
North Western 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.006

Notes:

The following DHAs are all part of the London implementation zone: Barnet, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Spelthorne, Ealing, Riverside, Parkside, Barking Havering and Brentwood, Hampstead, City and Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Enfield, Haringey, Redbridge, Waltham Forest, Bloomsbury and Islington, Bexley, Greenwich, Bromley, West Lambeth, Camberwell, Lewisham and North Southwark, Croydon, Kingston and Esher, Richmond Twickenham and Roehampton, Wandsworth, Merton and Sutton and all SHAs.

Sources:

Ordinary and day case admissions for England, Financial Year 1992–93.

OPCS Monitor PP1 93/3 Mid 1991 and mid-1992 population PP1 94/1 Revised population estimates for 1988 to 1990.

Mr. Sackville

The number of laboratory reports of toxoplasmosis in England and Wales during the past 10 years is shown in the table. It should be noted that those reports are not necessarily of new infections; some may be of chronic infection or represent results from repeat test on the same patient.

Information on the incidence of congenital toxoplasmosis each year is not routinely available.

Laboratory reports to the Public Health Laboratory Service, England and Wales, 1984–1993
Year Laboratory reports
1984 759
1985 842
1986 762
1987 849
1988 825
1989 852
1990 704
1991 636
1992 580
19931 454
19931 data provisional

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