§ Dr. MurrisonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many new cases of TB were re ported in England in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by health authority. [161142]
§ Miss Melanie Johnson[holding answer 15 March 2004] : The number of tuberculosis cases, reported by strategic health authority (SHA) in England 2001 through enhanced TB surveillance, is shown in the table.
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SHA TB cases reported Birmingham and Black Country 535 Shropshire and Staffordshire 40 West Midlands South 104 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 417 Trent 178 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 165 Essex 72 Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 83 South Yorkshire 135 West Yorkshire 352 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire 59
SHA TB cases reported Northumberland Tyne and Wear 101 County Durham and Tees Valley 61 Greater Manchester 381 Cumbria and Lancashire 177 Cheshire and Merseyside 93 North East London 628 North Central London 505 South East London 414 South West London 235 North West London 940 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 60 Thames Valley 191 Surrey and Sussex 119 Kent and Medway 74 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 108 South West Peninsula 60 Dorset and Somerset 42 Note:
85 cases could not be matched from local authority data to SHA data.