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Vaccination

Volume 87: debated on Tuesday 26 November 1985

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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)
1981198219831984
Pertussis/Diphtheria/Tetanus (triple)318,452358,064382,182387,659
Number of cases on in-patient waiting list for admission to NHS hospitals at 31 March—Portsmouth and South East Hampshire district health authority
Specialty197919801981198219831984
General medicine1014101239
Dermatology183332302622
Rheumatology1213178166
Geriatrics574432393510
General surgery1,2729241,3111,3221,4121,771
Ear, nose and throat1,5821,7681,6801,4831,5511,314
Trau. and orth.1,5171,1691,1931,1309921,157
Ophthalmology635474463446428363
Radiotherapy3710512
Urology1,0421,058688968952992
Thoracic surgery2
Oral surgery149160170188376472
Gynaecology1,0966057051,1461,0931,030
Mental handicap5957
Total7,4526,3266,3136,7776,8817,188

1981

1982

1983

1984

Pertussis1,77526,60323,1823,744
Pertussis/Diphtheria260155167216

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

554,342559,782526,407526,092

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
YearNumberTotal awards
19816274
19823043
19833142
19842429
19851923
Total166211