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Mr. Redmond
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action his Department is taking to reduce the number of cases of cryptosporidiosis caused by a waterborne parasite; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Dorrell
I refer the hon. Member to the reply by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment to the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) on 29 June at columns 363–64.
| Average daily available beds1 and in-patient cases treated, NHS hospitals, by regional health authority, 1979 and 1988–89 | ||||||
| 1979 | 1988–89 | |||||
| Regional health authority | Average daily available beds | In-patient cases treated | In-patients per available bed | Average daily available beds | In-patient cases treated | In-patients per available bed |
| Northern | 25,305 | 368,578 | 14·6 | 21,520 | 461,033 | 21·4 |
| Yorkshire | 29,946 | 433,783 | 14·5 | 22,765 | 551,458 | 24·2 |
| Trent | 31,712 | 464,917 | 14·7 | 25,992 | 626,102 | 24·1 |
| East Anglian | 13,094 | 201,867 | 15·4 | 11,827 | 269,637 | 22·8 |
| North West Thames2 | 27,905 | 403,264 | 14·5 | 20,145 | 416,153 | 20·7 |
| North East Thames2 | 29,443 | 455,851 | 15·5 | 23,285 | 521,291 | 22·4 |
| South East Thames2 | 28,408 | 438,889 | 15·4 | 19,574 | 487,815 | 24·9 |
| South West Thames2 | 26,242 | 312,264 | 11·9 | 19,066 | 344,259 | 18·1 |
| Wessex | 19,021 | 302,772 | 15·9 | 14,824 | 391,376 | 26·4 |
| Oxford | 13,664 | 251,898 | 18·4 | 11,024 | 296,433 | 26·9 |
| South Western | 24,456 | 338,890 | 13·9 | 19,166 | 451,586 | 23·6 |
| West Midlands | 36,263 | 547,773 | 15·1 | 28,784 | 689,457 | 24·0 |
| Mersey | 21,982 | 282,629 | 12·9 | 15,776 | 347,893 | 22·1 |
| North Western | 30,812 | 509,049 | 16·5 | 26,409 | 640,548 | 24·3 |
| Special Health Authorities2 | 3,419 | 87,696 | 25·7 | 2,780 | 90,941 | 32·7 |
| England | 361,670 | 5,400,120 | 14·9 | 282,937 | 6,585,982 | 23·3 |
Source: SH3 return 1979, HKo3 and SH3a returns 1988–89.
1 Excludes neonatal cots on maternity units, also beds on wards open during the day only.
2 Figures are not directly comparable over the period, due to NHS restructuring in 1982.