§ The Countess of Marasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many sudden deaths attributed to cardiac failure have occurred in farmers and farm workers under the age of 45 in each county district in Wales between 1985 and 1992.
Lord LucasCertifying doctors are discouraged from using terms such as cardiac failure on death certificates. Such a term expresses the mode of dying but does not accurately describe the underlying cause of death. The following information, compiled by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, from the coding of underlying cause on death certificates, gives figures on deaths due to acute myocardial infarction, ventricular fibrillation and flutter, cardiac arrest as well as heart failure (International Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death (9th revision) codes 410, 427.4, 427.5 and 428 respectively).
Over the period 1985–1992 there were five such deaths of farmers aged under 45 years resident in: Dinefwr (1 death), Meirionnydd (2), Ynys Mon (1) and the Vale of Glamorgan (1). There were three such deaths of farm workers aged under 45 over the same period with one death of residents in each of Monmouth, Dwyfor and Preseli Pembrokeshire. It is not possible to say whether or not these deaths were sudden.