§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many cases of asthma have been diagnosed in each health board area in Scotland in each year since 1979. [12512]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonAvailable information relates to in-patient and day case discharges from hospitals and excludes patients treated by general practitioners and in hospital out-patient and accident and emergency departments.
Details of numbers of discharges, by health board of residence, with a principal diagnosis of asthma, is shown in the table for calendar years 1979 to 1994. The figures for 1995 are not yet available.
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Health board of residence 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Argyll and Clyde 580 632 720 807 802 765 855 717 Ayrshire and Arran 683 653 657 648 789 760 832 740 Borders 197 207 227 275 185 174 201 169 Dumfries and Galloway 184 210 189 218 226 242 252 221 Fife 475 532 486 465 475 483 536 445 Forth Valley 362 356 339 411 424 361 452 460 Grampian 912 846 817 1,148 1,017 1,013 1,056 1,009 Greater Glasgow 1,574 1,621 1,582 1,839 1,833 1,988 2,058 1,870 Highland 269 259 242 289 310 270 367 311 Lanarkshire 801 895 976 1,032 1,168 1,074 1,087 979 Lothian 1,477 1,468 1,532 1,579 1,796 1,702 1,759 1,660 Orkney 30 16 17 17 20 19 16 13 Shetland 20 15 25 29 14 14 35 27 Tayside 648 708 705 734 942 834 894 828 Western Isles 14 26 19 30 31 35 38 40 Scotland total 8,226 8,444 8,533 9,521 10,032 9,734 10,438 9,489 Outside Scotland/not known/other 99 133 105 129 129 155 146 137 Grand total 8,325 8,577 8,638 9,650 10,161 9,889 10,584 9,626