It is a disease often associated with Victorian slums ... But figures show rickets is on the rise in Scotland, with its prevalence outstripping that in England. Cases have rocketed by 25 per ...

Rickets, once synonymous ... There have been 2,601 cases of measles in England in 2024 so far, up 38 on this time last year. While many of the other Victorian diseases have in fact always been ...

Rickets is a deficiency disease caused by a lack of calcium or vitamin D. Like scurvy, it was widespread in the Victorian slums ... confirmed measles cases in England - compared with 54 in the ...

Victorian-era illnesses such as scurvy and rickets are rebounding because of ... Nearly 11,000 people in England — including hundreds of kids — were hospitalised with malnutrition last year.

A host of "forgotten" diseases that plagued Victorian Britain more than 150 years ago is making a shocking comeback in modern ...

Cases of a disease that was prevalent in the slums of Victorian-era ... 482 across the whole of England and most (356) were in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area. Rickets is caused by a ...

There has been a more than 300 per cent rise in the recent cases of Rickets – a Victorian-era disease ... parts of Thanet - among the poorest in England. More than 20 per cent of the population ...

Last week, health authorities were notified of 314 suspected cases in England and Wales - three times the 129 cases recored in the previous week. Other diseases, including scurvy, rickets ...

Health experts have warned that several Victorian-era illnesses are making ... with vitamin supplements and foods like oranges. Rickets is also making a comeback. It’s caused by a vitamin ...

Cases of rickets, commonly associated with the slums of Victorian Britain, are now 700 per cent higher in Scotland than in England. And the majority of cases live in the Glasgow and wider ...

THE Victorian disease rickets has made an alarming comeback among adults in Scotland, it was revealed last month. Amid the cost of living crisis, cases are now 700 per cent higher than in England ...

A total of 442 cases of rickets -- a skeletal ... with 39 the year before. In England there had been 171 cases of scurvy in 2022, with three recorded in Scotland. "Victorian diseases are diseases ...