Michael Ring
Ceist:220 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of fatalities in County Mayo, nationwide and on a health board region basis due to cancer for each of the years from 1994 to date. [3547/99]
Written Answers - Mortality Rates.
Data on mortality are routinely published in the annual and quarterly reports on vital statistics compiled by the Central Statistics Office. The most recent figures available refer to the third quarter of 1998 and are set out in the following table in addition to data for the years 1994 to 1997.
Deaths from Cancer, 1994 to 1998
|
Area |
1994 |
1995 |
1996* |
1997* |
January toSeptember 1998* |
|
Eastern Health Board |
2,512 |
2,520 |
2,427 |
2,503 |
1,945 |
|
Midland Health Board |
405 |
483 |
369 |
436 |
326 |
|
Mid-Western Health Board |
658 |
628 |
637 |
662 |
504 |
|
North-Eastern Health Board |
585 |
596 |
588 |
547 |
426 |
|
North-Western Health Board |
499 |
472 |
509 |
550 |
415 |
|
South-Eastern Health Board |
821 |
823 |
797 |
833 |
623 |
|
Southern Health Board |
1,177 |
1,182 |
1,215 |
1,201 |
896 |
|
Western Health Board |
755 |
815 |
764 |
796 |
573 |
|
of which County Mayo |
294 |
317 |
274 |
306 |
204 |
|
Ireland |
7,412 |
7,519 |
7,306 |
7,528 |
5,708 |
*Provisional figures based on period of registration.
Source: Central Statistics Office.