asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many children in each year since 1981 completed courses of vaccination with the following vaccines or combination of vaccines: (a) pertussis/diphtheria/tetanus (triple), (b) triple/polio, (c) triple/smallpox, (d) triple/measles, (e) triple/polio/smallpox, (f) pertussis, (g) pertussis/polio, (h) pertussis/diphtheria/polio, (i) pertussis/polio/tetanus, (j) pertussis/diphtheria/rubella and (k) pertussis/diphtheria.
The information available is as follows:
Number of children under 16 completing primary courses of immunisation (England) | ||||
1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | |
Pertussis/Diphtheria/Tetanus (triple) | 318,452 | 358,064 | 382,182 | 387,659 |
Number of cases on in-patient waiting list for admission to NHS hospitals at 31 March—Portsmouth and South East Hampshire district health authority | ||||||
Specialty | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 |
General medicine | 10 | 14 | 10 | 12 | — | 39 |
Dermatology | 18 | 33 | 32 | 30 | 26 | 22 |
Rheumatology | 12 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 16 | 6 |
Geriatrics | 57 | 44 | 32 | 39 | 35 | 10 |
General surgery | 1,272 | 924 | 1,311 | 1,322 | 1,412 | 1,771 |
Ear, nose and throat | 1,582 | 1,768 | 1,680 | 1,483 | 1,551 | 1,314 |
Trau. and orth. | 1,517 | 1,169 | 1,193 | 1,130 | 992 | 1,157 |
Ophthalmology | 635 | 474 | 463 | 446 | 428 | 363 |
Radiotherapy | 3 | 7 | 10 | 5 | — | 12 |
Urology | 1,042 | 1,058 | 688 | 968 | 952 | 992 |
Thoracic surgery | — | — | 2 | — | — | — |
Oral surgery | 149 | 160 | 170 | 188 | 376 | 472 |
Gynaecology | 1,096 | 605 | 705 | 1,146 | 1,093 | 1,030 |
Mental handicap | 59 | 57 | — | — | — | — |
Total | 7,452 | 6,326 | 6,313 | 6,777 | 6,881 | 7,188 |
1981
| 1982
| 1983
| 1984
| |
Pertussis | 1,775 | 26,603 | 23,182 | 3,744 |
Pertussis/Diphtheria | 260 | 155 | 167 | 216 |
Information is not held centrally on the other combinations quoted. It is recommended that children receive oral polio vaccine at the same time as the triple vaccine. Numbers for oral polio were:
1981
| 1982
| 1983
| 1984
|
554,342 | 559,782 | 526,407 | 526,092 |
Smallpox vaccination has not formed part of the United Kingdom immunisation recommendations since 1981.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many vaccine-damage payments have been awarded for damage from a vaccine which according to the parents' recollection included a pertussis element in each year since 1981; and if he will give the total number of payments in each of these years.
The information, up to 8 November 1985, the latest date for which figures are available, is as follows:
Number of awards made in which vaccination was stated by claimant to include a pertussis element | ||
Year | Number | Total awards |
1981 | 62 | 74 |
1982 | 30 | 43 |
1983 | 31 | 42 |
1984 | 24 | 29 |
1985 | 19 | 23 |
Total | 166 | 211 |