Róisín Shortall
Question:79 Ms Shortall asked the Minister for Health the number of drug-related deaths which have occurred in Dublin, by postal district, in each of the past five years. [20168/96]
Written Answers. - Drug-Related Deaths.
Limerick East): There are no accurate data on the total number of deaths from drug misuse. Central Statistics Office figures for drug-related deaths provide details on the number of deaths which were drug-related deaths, but they do not always differentiate between legal and illegal drugs. In addition, in some cases, death certificates issued by the medical practitioners may list the clinical cause of death, rather than the circumstances which led to the death, which will not then be recorded in the drug-related deaths category.
The Central Statistics Office provided the following statistics on drug-related deaths for the Dublin area for the previous five years. The information is not available by postal district but is broken down into four area codes which relate to persons resident in those four areas.
Drug-Related Deaths
|
Dublin area code |
1991 |
1992 |
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
|
Dublin County Borough |
8 |
21 |
29 |
10 |
36 |
|
Dublin Fingal |
2 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
5 |
|
Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown |
4 |
5 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
|
Belgard |
— |
3 |
3 |
1 |
9 |
The above statistics for 1991, 1992 and 1993 are based on year of occurrence, while the statistics for 1994 and 1995 are based on year of registration and are provisional.