4.7 deaths of infants under one year per 1,000 live births (1997-2001) (5.6 in England)
94.4% of under-twos immunised (national target is 95 per cent)
213.2 of hospital admissions per 1,000 under-fours for serious accidental injury in 2001/2 (104.3 in England)
The success of the meningitis C vaccination programme is an example of intervention to improve public health. During the 1990s there was an increasing number of deaths particularly in those under one-year-old and from 15 to 19 years of age. Overall occurrence of meningococcal disease across Newcastle has fallen from 37 cases and three deaths in 1999 to six cases and no deaths in 2002.
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