Immunisation status and ethnicity on Monthly notifiable disease surveillance reports
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From: Erika Whittome
Dear Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited,
I note the monthly notifiable disease surveillance report used to have ethnicity and immunization status. For example for measles:
https://web.archive.org/web/201305041156...
And Whooping cough / pertussis
https://web.archive.org/web/201501240838...
Would you kindly share the ethnicity and immunisation status information on the monthly notifiable disease surveillance report?
If they are no longer published, would you please share the minutes, memos correspondence, emails etc regarding the decision to remove this information.
Yours faithfully,
Erika Whittome
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Tuesday 9 December 2025.
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ethnicity on Monthly notifiable disease surveillance reports
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