Diseases

(asked on 18th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many incidences of (a) rickets, (b) scabies and (c) tuberculosis there were in each year for which data is available.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 21st July 2017

The information requested is in the table below, which shows a count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis for rickets, scabies and tuberculosis in England from 2006-07 to 2015-16.

Year

Scabies

Rickets

Tuberculosis

2006-07

209

91

4,371

2007-08

189

83

4,366

2008-09

192

95

4,546

2009-10

157

66

4,096

2010-11

145

66

4,417

2011-12

148

74

4,352

2012-13

141

65

4,136

2013-14

141

39

3,740

2014-15

139

50

3,013

2015-16

118

48

2,912

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital

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