HC Deb 23 February 1998 vol 307 cc82-3W
Mrs. Gorman

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the occupations in each of the 10 years preceding death of those individuals who died from new variant CJD. [22725]

Ms Jowell

The details given in the list show the known occupations over the last 10 years for the 23 individuals who have died from new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease to date. Totals do not sum because some patients had more than one occupation.

  • Occupations
  • Sales assistant x 5
  • Engineering x 2
  • Clerical work x 2
  • Solicitor
  • Catering x 4
  • Debt collector
  • Bar work
  • Nursing x 2 Cleaner
  • Cable layer
  • Forestry
  • Waitress x 3
  • Office work x 3
  • Factory work including food industry
  • Retail industry
  • Armed services
  • Domestic
  • Computing x 2
  • Horticulture

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