HL Deb 31 March 1998 vol 588 cc32-3WA
Viscount Long

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many cases of human tuberculosis were diagnosed in each of the following years:

  1. (a) 1940;
  2. (b) 1950;
  3. (c) 1960;
  4. (d) 1970;
  5. (e) 1980; and
  6. (f) 1990. [HL1181]

Baroness Jay of Paddington

The total annual corrected notifications of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom for the years requested are as follows:

  • 1940: 55,049
  • 1950: 61,192
  • 1960: 28,381
  • 1970: 14,183
  • 1980: 10,488
  • 1990: 5,899.

Source: the Chief Medical Officers' Annual Reports, Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health, Scottish Office Information and Statistics Division and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Communicable Disease Statistics. (In England and Wales, from 1982 onwards the system has enabled notifications associated with chemoprophylaxis to be excluded, so that data may not be strictly comparable.)