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Mr. Ashley
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list those serious outbreaks of infection that have occurred in hospitals in each of the last five years that have been reported to the Public Health Laboratory Service.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke
[pursuant to his reply, 19 June 1985, c. 169]: The hospital outbreaks that have been reported to PHLS in the last five years are as follows:
| Year | Outbreaks | |
| 1980 | 13 | (Salmonellas 4 Clostridium 9) |
| 1981 | 8 | (Salmonellas 5 Clostridium 3) |
| 1982 | 15 | (Salmonellas 4 Clostridium 11) |
| 1983 | 15 | (Salmonellas 9 Clostridium 6) |
| 1984 (provisional) | 19 | (Salmonellas 4 Clostridium 15) |
| Legionnaires' Disease | |
| Year | Outbreaks |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 1 |
| 1982 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 |
| 1984 | 0 |