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Mr. Allen McKay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give for each week from March 1989 to date the number of salmonella food poisoning cases which have been reported.
Mr. Freeman
The information requested is given in the table. Figures are collated monthly, and are not available on a weekly basis.
| Human isolates of salmonella confirmed by the Department of Enteric Pathogens, PHLS | |
| 1989 | Number |
| March | 1,213 |
| April | 1,106 |
| May | 1,364 |
| June | 2,854 |
| July | 3,303 |
| August | 4,586 |
| September | 4,684 |
| October | 3,556 |