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Mr. Alton
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of malaria were reported in Britain for each of the last five years.
Mr. Freeman
The information is shown in the table.
| Total notifications1 of malaria Great Britain: 1985–89 | |
| Year | Notifications |
| 1985 | 1,767 |
| 1986 | 1,747 |
| 1987 | 1,264 |
| 19882 | 1,333 |
| 19892 | 1,535 |
| 1 Notified in England and Wales to the Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys (OPCS), and in Scotland to the Scottish Health Service by the individual Health Boards. | |
| 2 Provisional. | |