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Mr. Redmond
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by district health authority in the counties of Yorkshire and Humberside, the number of cases of meningitis reported during (a) 1989 and (b) the current year to date.
Mr. Dorrell
The exact information requested is not available.Notifications of meningitis are made on a local authority basis. It is not possible to accurately aggregate these to district health authority boundaries. Provisional data for those local authorities within Yorkshire and Humberside are shown in the table.
| Notifications of all forms of meningitis, and meningococcal meningitis by county/county districts in Yorkshire and Humberside region for 1989 and 19901 | ||||
| Area | All forms of meningitis | Meningococcal meningitis | ||
| 1989 | 19901 | 1989 | 19901 | |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 329 | 122 | 106 | 57 |
| County/County District | ||||
| South Yorkshire | 94 | 41 | 39 | 16 |
| Barnsley | 13 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| Doncaster | 23 | 10 | 17 | 8 |
| Rotherham | 20 | 10 | 4 | 3 |
| Sheffield | 38 | 17 | 12 | 3 |
| West Yorkshire | 148 | 39 | 37 | 19 |
| Bradford | 30 | 13 | 11 | 6 |
| Calderdale | 14 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Kirklees | 16 | 3 | 9 | 2 |
| Leeds | 66 | 13 | 7 | 5 |
| Wakefield | 22 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| Humberside | 59 | 25 | 20 | 13 |
| Boothferry | 3 | 3 | 2 | — |
| Cleethorpes | 2 | — | — | — |
| East Yorkshire | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Glanford | 4 | — | — | — |
| Great Grimsby | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| Holderness | 4 | — | 1 | — |
| Kingston upon Hull | 26 | 7 | 9 | 2 |
| Scunthorpe | 6 | — | 2 | — |
| North Yorkshire | 28 | 17 | 10 | 9 |
| Craven | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Hambleton | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Harrogate | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Richmondshire | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Ryedale | 2 | — | — | — |
| Scarborough | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Selby | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| York | 4 | 1 | 3 | — |
| 1 Provisional data for 1 January to 4 May 1990. | ||||