Statutory Notifications of Infectious Diseases (NOIDs) - Annual Totals 1994 to 2007 - England and Wales
Notifiable under the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988
(includes notifications from Port Health Authorities)
| Disease | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 |
1998
|
1999
|
2000 |
2001
|
2002
|
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acute encephalitis |
30
|
37
|
25
|
33
|
26
|
20
|
14
|
17
|
18
|
15
|
20
|
19
|
19
|
18 |
| Acute poliomyelitis |
-
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
2
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
- |
| Anthrax |
-
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
- |
| Cholera |
30
|
32
|
32
|
33
|
48
|
29
|
30
|
28
|
17
|
26
|
31
|
34
|
37
|
41 |
| Diphtheria ‡ |
9
|
12
|
11
|
22
|
23
|
23
|
19
|
13
|
20
|
13
|
10
|
9
|
10
|
9 |
| Dysentery |
6,956
|
4,651
|
2,312
|
2,274
|
1,813
|
1,538
|
1,494
|
1,388
|
1,087
|
1,047
|
1,203
|
1,237
|
1,122
|
1217 |
| Food poisoning |
81,833
|
82,041
|
83,233
|
93,901
|
93,932
|
86,316
|
86,528
|
85,468
|
72,649
|
70,895
|
70,311
|
70,407
|
70,603
|
72,382 |
| Leptospirosis |
25
|
13
|
15
|
23
|
32
|
23
|
32
|
25
|
24
|
24
|
14
|
31
|
24
|
37 |
| Malaria |
1,139
|
1,300
|
1,659
|
1,476
|
1,110
|
1,005
|
1,128
|
1,081
|
847
|
791
|
609
|
679
|
613
|
426 |
| Measles ‡ |
16,375
|
7,447
|
5,614
|
3,962
|
3,728
|
2,438
|
2,378
|
2,250
|
3,187
|
2,488
|
2,356
|
2,089
|
3,705
|
3670 |
| Meningitis |
1,800
|
2,285
|
2,686
|
2,345
|
2,072
|
2,094
|
2,432
|
2,623
|
1,545
|
1,472
|
1,267
|
1,381
|
1,494
|
1251 |
| meningococcal |
938
|
1,146
|
1,164
|
1,220
|
1,152
|
1,145
|
1,164
|
1,020
|
706
|
646
|
554
|
579
|
618
|
557 |
| Meningococcal septicaemia |
430
|
707
|
1,129
|
1,440
|
1,509
|
1,822
|
1,614
|
1,238
|
842
|
732
|
691
|
721
|
657
|
673 |
| Mumps ‡ |
2,494
|
1,936
|
1,747
|
1,914
|
1,587
|
1,691
|
2,168
|
2,741
|
1,997
|
4,204
|
16,367
|
56,256
|
12,841
|
7196 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum |
268
|
245
|
246
|
224
|
198
|
163
|
176
|
115
|
91
|
102
|
85
|
87
|
100
|
83 |
| Paratyphoid fever |
139
|
124
|
101
|
101
|
121
|
125
|
79
|
129
|
84
|
99
|
134
|
119
|
185
|
126 |
| Plague |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
- |
| Rabies |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
- |
| Relapsing fever |
-
|
-
|
2
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
- |
| Rubella ‡ |
6,326
|
6,196
|
9,081
|
3,260
|
3,208
|
1,954
|
1,653
|
1,483
|
1,660
|
1,361
|
1,287
|
1,155
|
1,221
|
1082 |
| Scarlet fever |
6,193
|
5,296
|
4,873
|
3,569
|
3,339
|
2,086
|
1,933
|
1,756
|
2,159
|
2,553
|
2,201
|
1,678
|
2,166
|
1948 |
| Smallpox |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
- |
| Tetanus |
3
|
6
|
7
|
7
|
7
|
3
|
2
|
6
|
4
|
8
|
12
|
3
|
-
|
4 |
| Tuberculosis |
5,591
|
5,608
|
5,654
|
5,859
|
6,087
|
6,144
|
6,572
|
6,714
|
6,753
|
6,518
|
6,723
|
7,628
|
7,621
|
6989 |
| Typhoid fever |
231
|
246
|
175
|
140
|
122
|
151
|
125
|
121
|
91
|
176
|
146
|
179
|
201
|
208 |
| Typhus fever |
4
|
4
|
2
|
5
|
6
|
3
|
3
|
-
|
-
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
6
|
- |
| Viral haemorrhagic fever |
3
|
-
|
10
|
1
|
4
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
5
|
1 |
| Viral hepatitis |
3,722
|
3,296
|
2,437
|
3,186
|
3,183
|
3,424
|
3,541
|
3,388
|
3,859
|
4,004
|
3,932
|
4,109
|
4,007
|
3857 |
| hepatitis A |
2,715
|
2,120
|
1,339
|
1,837
|
1,515
|
1,676
|
1,271
|
1,138
|
1,381
|
1,194
|
784
|
513
|
433
|
333 |
| hepatitis B |
528
|
623
|
613
|
730
|
886
|
864
|
1,035
|
1,028
|
1,073
|
1,151
|
1,215
|
1,325
|
1,165
|
1265 |
| hepatitis C |
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
743
|
1,042
|
1,061
|
1,340
|
1,574
|
1,851
|
2,120
|
2,194
|
2040 |
| Whooping cough |
3,964
|
1,869
|
2,387
|
2,989
|
1,577
|
1,139
|
712
|
888
|
883
|
409
|
504
|
594
|
550
|
1089 |
| Yellow fever |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
2
|
-
|
- |
‡ In recent years a substantial proportion of notified cases of these diseases are shown subsequently not to be the implicated infection but do not get de-notified
Reviewed on September 2008
Last reviewed: 13 October 2008