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Whooping Cough And Scarlet Fever

Volume 927: debated on Tuesday 8 March 1977

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the figures of notifications of whooping-cough and scarlet fever per million children aged under 15 years, for each year since 1945; and if he will express them as index numbers taking the average figure for 1941 to 1945 as 100.

The figures are as follows:

NOTIFICATIONS PER MILLION CHILDREN UNDER 15 YEARS OF AGE IN ENGLAND AND WALES
Whooping CoughScarlet Fever
RateIndexRateIndex
1941–4511,4061009,704100
194610,566936,38166
194710,170896,28365
194815,6981387,93082
194910,825957,39076
195016,3811446,84170
195117,4001535,00652
195211,7141036,85971
195315,9821406,19564
195410,639934,32245
19557,893693,25334
19569,091803,25734
19578,286732,88030
19583,233283,76039
19593,201284,61348
19605,535493,06832
19612,307201,88519
196278771,44215
19633,258291,63617
19642,933261,86819
19651,185102,44725
19661,755151,91820
19672,991261,72218
19681,528131,31114
196943541,40214
19701,436131,13812
19711,452131,07611
1972178296410
197321021,03711
19741,412129069
197578678369