To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of (a) cholera, (b) typhoid fever, (c) paratyphoid fever, (d) dysentery, (e) food poisoning and (f) diphtheria, were notified in 1993 and 1994. [38536]

The information is shown in the table:

Cases reported in England and Wales
	1993	1994 (provisional)
Cholera	23	30
Typhoid fever	175	236
Paratyphoid fever	93	134
Dysentery	6,841	6,961
Food poisoning (total)	68,587	82,587
Diphtheria	6	9

Notification of infectious diseases are published annually in the MB2 Series (Communicable Disease Statistics), copies of which are available in the Library. The latest available publication is Series MB2 No. 20 (1993).