§ Mr. BakerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of(a) measles, (b) mumps, (c) rubella, (d) diphtheria, (e) tetanus, (f) whooping cough and (g) polio there were in each of the last 10 years. [124211]
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§ Yvette Cooper[holding answer 5 June 2000]: The data in the table, which is for England and Wales, have been provided by the Public Health Laboratory Service, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre. For measles, mumps and rubella, data are collected as both notifications of disease and as laboratory-confirmed cases. Laboratory-confirmed cases give a more reliable guide to the true incidence of a disease, and in recent years a low proportion of suspected cases of measles, mumps and rubella have been confirmed as true cases.
Year Measles notified Measles tested Measles confirmed Mumps notified Mumps tested Mumps confirmed 1989 26,222 n/a 100 20,713 n/a 265 1990 13,302 n/a 78 4,277 n/a 94 1991 9,680 n/a 49 2,922 n/a 52 1992 10,268 n/a 106 2,412 n/a 49 1993 9,611 n/a 96 2,153 n/a 34 1994 16,374 n/a 1406 2,494 n/a 148 1995 7,445 4,622 160 1,933 962 168 1996 5,613 3,320 1115 1,747 966 194 1997 3,962 2,596 1199 1,914 1,102 1181 1998 3,728 2,309 157 1,587 1,000 1119 1999 2,438 1,412 1101 1,691 1,131 1335
Year Rubella notified Rubella tested Rubella confirmed Diphtheria Tetanus Whooping cough Poliomyelitis 1989 24,570 n/a 760 6 10 11,646 2 1990 11,491 n/a 705 4 11 15,286 4 1991 7,174 n/a 249 1 11 5,201 2 1992 6,212 n/a 197 3 10 2,309 5 1993 9,724 n/a 1,489 5 11 4,091 4 1994 6,326 n/a 309 4 3 3,964 2 1995 6,196 2,847 971 1 6 1,869 2 1996 9,081 4,217 2,776 3 6 2,387 1 1997 3,260 2,032 99 5 6 2,989 2 1998 3,208 2,207 1118 3 9 1,577 1 1999 1,954 1,285 1181 0 3 1,139 0 1Includes cases confirmed by salivary antibody testing in addition to those confirmed by blood testing Note:
The 1999 data are provisional