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Cervical Cancer

Volume 203: debated on Friday 14 February 1992

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will state for (a) each regional health authority and (b) each district health authority the number of women who died of cervical cancer for the most recent year available.

[holding answer 10 February 1992]: The information requested is shown in the table.

The total number of deaths from cervical cancer in England and Wales in 1990 was 1,781. This represents a decrease in mortality of around 13 per cent. since 1980, when the total number of deaths was 2,068.

Number of deaths from cancer of the cervix

1

by regional and district health authority of usual residence for 1990

Number

England and Wales

1,781

Northern RHA

119
Hartlepool3
North Tees7
South Tees7
East Cumbria10
South Cumbria5
West Cumbria9
Darlington4
Durham9
North West Durham5
South West Durham7
Northumberland10
Gateshead5
Newcastle10
North Tyneside12
South Tyneside9
Sunderland7

Yorkshire RHA

135
Hull11
East Yorks5
Grimsby7
Scunthorpe7
Northallerton5
York10
Scarborough7
Harrogate3
Bradford20
Airedale4
Calderdale10
Huddersfield4
Dewsbury8
Leeds Western11
Leeds Eastern13
Wakefield3
Pontefract7

Trent RHA

160
North Derbyshire14
Southern Derbyshire17
Leicestershire26
North Lincolnshire6
South Lincolnshire8
Bassetlaw1
Central Nottinghamshire13
Nottingham25
Barnsley11
Doncaster14
Rotherham13
Sheffield12

East Anglian RHA

72
Cambridge9
Peterborough9
West Suffolk8
East Suffolk10
Norwich18
Great Yarmouth and Waveney10
West Norfolk and Wisbech7
Huntingdon1

North West Thames RHA

97
North Bedfordshire8
South Bedfordshire9
North Hertfordshire3
East Hertfordshire9
North West Hertfordshire9
South West Hertfordshire2
Barnet5

Number

Harrow8
Hillingdon1
Hounslow and Spelthorne11
Ealing6
Parkside16
Riverside10

North East Thames RHA

97
Basildon and Thurrock12
Mid Essex5
North East Essex8
West Essex7
Southend10
Barking, Havering and Brentwood6
Hampstead5
Bloomsbury4
Islington6
City and Hackney8
Newham5
Tower Hamlets8
Enfield8
Haringey0
Redbridge4
Waltham Forest1

South East Thames RHA

117
Brighton10
Eastbourne10
Hastings6
South East Kent10
Canterbury and Thanet8
Dartford and Gravesham6
Maidstone4
Medway13
Tunbridge Wells2
Bexley7
Greenwich5
Bromley14
West Lambeth5
Camberwell7
Lewisham and North Southwark10

South West Thames RHA

81
North West Surrey6
West Surrey and North East Hampshire8
South West Surrey5
Mid Surrey8
East Surrey2
Chichester3
Mid Downs4
Worthing8
Croydon10
Kingston and Esher5
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton6
Wandsworth6
Merton and Sutton10

Wessex RHA

99
East Dorset14
West Dorset3
Portsmouth and south east Hampshire26
Southampton and south west Hampshire16
Winchester1
Basingstoke and North Hampshire5
Salisbury5
Swindon7
Bath17
Isle of Wight5

Oxford RHA

56
East Berkshire12
West Berkshire12

Number

Aylesbury Vale3
Wycombe6
Milton Keynes0
Kettering7
Northampton4
Oxfordshire12

South Western RHA

114
Bristol and Weston12
Frenchay5
Southmead7
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly19
Exeter14
North Devon8
Plymouth16
Torbay6
Cheltenham and District5
Gloucester11
Somerset11

West Midlands RHA

186
Bromsgrove and Redditch3
Herefordshire12
Kidderminster and District1
Worcester and District8
Shropshire9
Mid Staffordshire6
North Staffordshire22
South East Staffordshire9
Rugby1
North Warwickshire4
South Warwickshire9
Central Birmingham4
East Birmingham4
North Birmingham4
South Birmingham13
West Birmingham10
Coventry16
Dudley15
Sandwell12
Solihull11
Walsall8
Wolverhampton5

Mersey RHA

123
Chester11
Crewe10
Halton9
Macclesfield5
Warrington12
Liverpool28
St. Helens and Knowsley20
Southport and Formby4
South Sefton7
Wirral17

North Western RHA

197
Lancaster5
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde22
Preston8
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble13
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale12
West Lancashire7
Chorley and South Ribble7
Bolton11
Bury6
North Manchester11
Central Manchester6
South Manchester8
Oldham15
Rochdale8
Salford11
Stockport12
Tameside and Glossop19
Trafford9
Wigan7

Number

Wales

124
Clwyd22
East Dyfed12
Pembrokeshire4
Gwent16
Gwynedd7
Mid Glamorgan24
Powys8
South Glamorgan15
West Glamorgan16

1 International classification of disease code 180 ninth revision.