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Ms. Harman
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the death rate from meningococcal meningitis.
Mrs. Currie
The table gives the number of deaths registered where meningococcal meningitis was the underlying cause of death and the crude mortality rate per million usually resident population for the latest five years.
| Deaths with underlying cause as meningococcal meningitis (ICD(9)1 036·0): numbers and rates per million population England and Wales 1983–87 | ||
| Year | Number | Rate per million |
| 1983 | 20 | 0·40 |
| 1984 | 26 | 0·52 |
| 1985 | 36 | 0·72 |
| 1986 | 44 | 0·88 |
| 21987 | 37 | 0·74 |
| 1International Classification or" Diseases 9th revision. | ||
| 2Provisional. | ||
Ms. Harman
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement about the incidence of haemophilus or pneumococcal meningitis.
Mrs. Currie
The table gives the numbers of notifications of haemophilus and pneumococcal meningitis for the latest six years available. In addition, the numbers of notifications where the organism was not specified on the notification forms are shown.
| Number of notifications of (a) haemophilus (influenzal), (b) pneumococcal and (c) unspecified meningitis England and Wales 1982 to 1987 | |||
| Type of meningitis | |||
| Year | Haemophilus | Pneumococcal | Unspecified |
| 1982 | 177 | 87 | 145 |
| 1983 | 173 | 74 | 137 |
| 1984 | 217 | 78 | 149 |
| 1985 | 206 | 82 | 186 |
| 1986 | 268 | 143 | 232 |
| 11987 | 250 | 109 | 171 |
| 1Provisional, January to September only. | |||