Michael Ring
Question:162 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of recorded outbreaks of tuberculosis for the past three years, on a county basis. [14170/03]
Written Answers. - Tuberculosis Incidence.
Statistics on notifiable infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, are compiled by the National Disease Surveillance Centre. The following table details the number of TB notifications per health board region for the years 1998-2001, inclusive, as well as an overall figure for the first two quarters of 2002. As per the NDSC, the figures supplied for 2001 and 2002 are provisional. There has been a steady decline in the level of tuberculosis in Ireland over the past 20 years. In 1990, there were 613 notified cases of TB in Ireland, a figure that had fallen by 35%, to 395 cases, by 2000. This represents the lowest ever annual incidence rate of TB in Ireland.
TB cases notified by each health board from 1998 to 2002, inclusive.
|
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002* |
|
|
ERHA |
152 |
180 |
143 |
185 |
64 |
|
MHB |
10 |
15 |
16 |
8 |
8 |
|
MWHB |
47 |
54 |
47 |
33 |
15 |
|
NEHB |
29 |
25 |
21 |
38 |
11 |
|
NWHB |
19 |
19 |
9 |
12 |
3 |
|
SEHB |
35 |
31 |
41 |
20 |
22 |
|
SHB |
78 |
75 |
80 |
76 |
43 |
|
WHB |
54 |
70 |
38 |
34 |
17 |
|
Total |
424 |
469 |
395 |
406 |
183 |
* Only figures for Quarter 1 and Quarter 2, 2002 are included.