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31.
Mr. Brotherton
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many children are known to have died because they had not received the anti-whooping-cough vaccination.
Mr. Moyle
Whilst deaths attributed to whooping cough are recorded, it is not possible to say how many children have died because they had not been immunised against whooping cough.
Mr. Ashley
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what proportion of
allowances for past years in so far as this information is available:
deaths from whooping cough occurred in children aged 1 year or less in each of the last 10 years; and if he will give the numbers of such deaths.
Mr. Ennals
The figures are as follows:
| WHOOPING COUGH DEATHS IN ENGLAND AND WALES | |||
| Aged under one | |||
| All ages No. | No. | Percentage | |
| 1967 | 27 | 24 | 89 |
| 1968 | 15 | 15 | 100 |
| 1969 | 6 | 4 | 67 |
| 1970 | 15 | 13 | 87 |
| 1971 | 26 | 22 | 85 |
| 1972 | 2 | 2 | 100 |
| 1973 | 2 | 2 | 100 |
| 1974 | 13 | 12 | 92 |
| 1975 | 12 | 11 | 92 |
| 1976* | 3 | 1 | 33 |
| * Provisional | |||