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TABLE A11 Public Health 

Morbidity: Notification of selected infectious diseases  
England   Numbers

  1992   1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Dysentery 16284   1768 1489 1444 1350 1059
Food poisoning              
  total
59757   87971 81351 81812 80626 68878
  formally notified
39567   49939 45617 44214 44132 36850
  otherwise ascertained
20190   38032 35734 37598 36494 32028
Tuberculosis (excluding chemoprophylaxis) 5598   5,915 5938 6379 6571 6628
Whooping cough 2171   1471 1077 658 851 858
Scarlet fever 4488   3241 2002 1879 1698 2080
Meningitis 2361   1925 1916 2251 2431 1449
  of which meningococcal meningitis
964   1080 1072 1082 965 668
Meningococcal septicaemia (without meningitis) 249   1342 1561 1450 1102 748
Viral hepatitis 8493   2981 3248 3293 3158 3655
Malaria 1175   1098 991 1110 1072 840
Measles 9802   3524 2334 2265 2110 3049
Mumps 2333   1519 1638 2111 2676 1831
Rubella 6024   3089 1886 1587 1410 1596
Source: PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC)   Contact:Douglas Harding (CDSC) 0208 200 6868 ext. 4549 (email: dharding@phls.org.uk)
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