Manchester child illness and death stats is more evidence for calling in Tesco Toxic Towers

 I am seeking child illness and death statistics from NHS trusts for conditions which are correlated with air pollution listed at the end of this post:

Manchester's reply came in earlier in the week at ManchesterSTATS The trust provided some information on hospital attendances and partial postcodes. The death statistics are cut and pasted below:

68 child deaths occur over a two year period, but only a partial postcode is provided. Just like BHRUT, the Manchester NHS Trust refuses the full postcode citing confidentiality grounds. My argument is the full postcodes need disclosing so elected representatives and the public know of the risks of living by busy roads. If as I suspect there is a national correlation between child deaths and hospital attendances with living by busy roads it will put pressure on Sadiq Khan to call in the Tesco Toxic Towers and investigate the real risks of building the towers by a busy road. I will write further when more data comes in from other trusts.





Information sought

1) The full postcodes of patients, both in patients and out patients aged under 18 who have been are/receiving treatment for the following conditions
a) Cancer with a breakdown of types, for example
Leukemia
Brain and spinal cord tumour
Neuroblastoma
Wilms tumour
Lymphoma (including both Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin)
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Retinoblastoma
Bone cancer
b) Otitis media
c) All Acute lower respiratory infections, such as pneumonia and bronchiolitis.
d) Meningitis
For the following periods:
23rd March 2020 to 22nd March 2021
23rd March 2019 to 22nd March 2020
These dates tie in with the lockdown period.

2) Children who have died in your care either in hospital or at home as out-patients aged under 18 for the same time periods and same conditions with the full postcodes set out in 1 above.


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