Tetanus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been diagnosed with tetanus in each month since March 1997. (80301)

Data on the notifications of cases of tetanus by age group and sex for England and Wales for the period 1969 to 2005 are shown in the table and are also available on the Health Protection Agency website at:

www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/tetanus/data_not_age_ sex.htm

*Age group (years)*
	0-4	5-14	15-24	25-44
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
1969	0	0	4	0	1	0	3	1
1970	2	0	4	0	2	1	1	1
1971	1	0	2	3	3	0	3	0
1972	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	3
1973	0	1	2	1	1	1	3	0
1974	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	2
1975	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	0
1976	0	1	1	0	2	0	3	1
1977	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	0
1978	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
1979	0	0	0	0	4	1	4	0
1980	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
1981	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
1982	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
1983	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
1984	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
1985	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1
1986	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
1987	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
1988	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	3
1989	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	1
1990	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
1991	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
1992	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
1993	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
1994	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1995	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1996	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1997	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
1998	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1999	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2000	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
2001	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
2002	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2003	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	1
2004	0	0	2	0	0	2	¹4	1
2005²	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

*Age group (years)*
	45-64	>65	Not known	All ages
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Total
1969	2	3	3	0	1	1	14	5	19
1970	1	0	2	8	0	0	12	10	22
1971	1	5	2	4	0	0	12	12	24
1972	1	1	4	5	0	0	11	9	20
1973	1	3	2	7	0	0	9	13	22
1974	2	2	1	1	0	0	8	8	16
1975	3	3	5	7	0	0	12	12	24
1976	1	2	3	1	0	0	10	5	15
1977	3	0	2	6	0	0	9	7	16
1978	2	5	2	3	0	0	6	9	15
1979	2	2	1	6	0	0	11	9	20
1980	4	4	2	2	0	0	10	8	18
1981	4	1	1	2	0	1	10	5	15
1982	0	2	3	5	0	0	4	8	12
1983	2	1	0	1	0	0	4	2	6
1984	1	3	0	1	0	0	2	4	6
1985	1	1	1	6	0	0	3	9	12
1986	2	0	1	4	0	0	5	6	11
1987	2	0	4	1	0	0	6	3	9
1988	3	0	1	2	0	0	6	6	12
1989	2	2	1	5	0	0	7	9	16
1990	1	1	2	4	0	0	3	6	9
1991	0	2	2	2	0	0	3	5	8
1992	0	0	2	0	2	0	5	1	6
1993	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	8	8
1994	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	3
1995	0	2	1	1	0	1	2	4	6
1996	1	0	1	3	1	0	4	3	7
1997	0	1	1	4	0	0	1	6	7
1998	1	2	0	3	0	0	2	5	7
1999	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	3
2000	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
2001	2	0	2	1	0	0	5	1	6
2002	1	2	1	0	0	0	2	2	4
2003	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	6	8
2004	2	1	0	0	0	0	¹8	4	¹12
2005²	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	3
¹ Includes one duplicate report from 2003 ² Provisional. Note: Last update: 11 April 2006 Sources: Registrar General’s Annual Report Office for National Statistics Communicable Disease Statistics Series MB2 CDSC, Notifications of Infectious Diseases

Volume 448: debated on Wednesday 12 July 2006