HC Deb 20 April 1995 vol 258 cc250-1W
Mr. Alex Carlile

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the number of recorded cases of(a) smallpox, (b) rickets, (c) leprosy, (d) cholera, (e) tuberculosis, (f) poliomyelitis and (g) scorbutus, per region, for each year since 1985. [19695]

Mr. Sackville

The information relating to leprosy, cholera, tuberculosis and poliomyelitis can be found in tables 5 and 6 of "Communicable disease statistics, England and Wales", series MB2, Numbers. 12–18, 1985–1992 HMSO 1987–1994, copies of which are available in the Library.

Data on rickets and scorbutus are not available centrally.

There have been no reported cases of smallpox in England and Wales since 1978.

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