Measles Notifications England and Wales, by Region, 1989-2009

	East Mids	Eastern	London	North East	North West	South East	South West	West Mids	York& Humber	Wales	Total
1989	1854	2057	2163	1904	4432	3119	1435	3088	4299	1871	26222
1990	954	1123	1371	1416	2119	1344	886	1678	1812	598	13301
1991	697	871	1048	475	1503	1177	568	1297	1490	554	9680
1992	734	995	1019	627	1582	1201	1337	1027	1279	466	10267
1993	818	884	1117	550	1431	1077	588	1128	1373	645	9611
1994	1037	2025	1801	979	2914	1689	906	1296	2087	1640	16374
1995	499	778	1001	460	1027	853	520	778	1015	514	7445
1996	422	644	733	246	841	673	330	641	767	316	5613
1997	352	352	522	172	530	386	322	495	503	328	3962
1998	259	300	475	178	616	441	299	503	453	203	3727
1999	164	193	387	119	411	299	126	318	317	104	2438
2000	162	189	461	97	394	287	107	290	278	113	2378
2001	131	172	339	102	372	284	132	288	290	140	2250
2002	178	236	690	166	403	430	176	424	346	138	3187
2003	135	238	435	140	301	375	145	257	286	176	2488
2004	279	189	404	150	304	295	139	188	207	201	2356
2005	188	165	353	100	268	320	143	204	166	182	2089
2006	311	326	867	186	313	763	170	302	339	128	3705
2007	333	329	1216	97	279	431	155	261	427	142	3670
2008	299	349	1852	128	677	551	242	403	364	223	5088
2009	347	472	1230	352	450	728	300	478	267	567	5191
2010*^#	130	242	614	66	224	341	134	157	190	118	2216

* provisional data

#Provisions relating to laboratory notifications in the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/659) came into force on 1st October 2010, and significantly improve and extend the existing arrangements for statutory notification of infectious diseases in England. The statutory notification by diagnostic laboratories of specified causative agents of infectious disease to the HPA, which includes measles, mumps and rubella, will be reflected in future quarterly and annual summaries of confirmed cases of these infections.

Source: Notifications of Infectious disease

Cases from Port Health Authorities are excluded

Last reviewed: 19 October 2011