HC Deb 16 March 1995 vol 256 cc701-2W
Mrs. Beckett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 24 February,Official Report, columns 355-56, if she will list the health statistics in the categories in the answer for the top five district health authorities or family health service authorities as appropriate.

Mr. Sackville

The information is shown in the table.a) the five district health authorities with the highest crude birth rates in 1993 were:

Crude birth rate1
East London and City 19.3
West Birmingham 18.2
East Birmingham 17.9
North Manchester 17.3
South East London 16.7
England 13.1
1 Number of births per 1,000 population of all ages.

b) The five local authority areas in England with the highest number of notifications of tuberculosis in 1993 were:

Notifications of tuberculosis
Birmingham 319
Bradford 164
Leicester 162
Newham 137
Brent 129
Data for district health authorities are not available. c) The five district health authorities with the highest conception rates to women under 20 in England, 1991, were:
Conception rates1
North Manchester 139.2
City and Hackney 113.9
West Lambeth 112.4
Tower Hamlets 111.4
East Birmingham 105.5
England 64.8

1 All conceptions to women under 20 per 1,000 females aged 15-19.

d) Residents of three health districts accounted for 35 per cent. of all AIDS notifications in England and Wales in 1993. The districts were: Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Camden and Islington Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow e) The six district health authorities in England with the highest rates of perinatal mortality1 in 1993 were:

Perinatal mortality rates
West Birmingham 14.9
South Birmingham 14.1
Central Manchester 13.8
Gateshead 13.3
South Manchester 13.2
Worcester and District 13.2
1 Per 1,000 live and still births