You asked
Would you be able to provide me with the number of influenza deaths and hospitalisations for the whole year of 1999.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We are responsible for producing mortality statistics for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration. For Scotland and Northern Ireland statistics please contact National Records Scotland and NISRA respectively.
We do not hold data on hospitalisations. You may be able to obtain this information from NHS Digital, they can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk.
Please see the following link to The National Archives for 20th century historic all-cause data. These reference tables contain mortality data from 1901 to 2000. The ICD codes used to code Influenza are J09-J11. You can search this in column A.
In case it is of interest, please see the following back series as part of our 21st century mortality dataset, which contains all-cause mortality data by ICD code, age and sex, 2001-2019, England and Wales.
If you have any queries about this data, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.