Table 1

Incidence and probability of disease occuring in Portsmouth

Condition Incidence/ birth prevalence In Portsmouth (6000 deliveries/year) Probability of seeing in any one year on 1 in 10 rota
Ondine's/Hirschsprung's /Neuroblastoma2 1in 1.4 million1 in 233 years0.00043
Apert's (normal twin)3 1 in 80 0001 in 13 years0.00769
MCAD4 * 1 in 22 0001 in 3.6 years0.02732
Galactosaemia5 1 in 450 0001 in 7.5 years0.01333
Prader-Willi6 1 in 16 0001 in 2.6 years0.03846
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher's (conatal form)7 1 in 770 0001 in 128 years0.00078
Munchausen syndrome by proxy (<1 year old)8 1 in 35 7001 in 5.9 years0.01695
  • MCAD, medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.