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Mr. Farr
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the number of cases of brucellosis notified in human beings in each of the last three years.
Mr. Alison
Brucellosis is not a statutorily notifiable disease but the numbers of cases in humans confirmed by the Public Health Laboratory Service in England and Wales are as follows:
| 1968 | 226 |
| 1969 | 228 |
| 1970 | 256 |
| (47 weeks only | (provisional) |