A disease linked to poverty and malnutrition that once crippled the crowded slums of 19th-century Britain is on the rise in Scotland, according to data published at the weekend.
A total of 442 cases of rickets—a skeletal disease caused by a sustained lack of Vitamin D—were recorded in 2022 compared to 354 in 2018, data from 13 of 14 Scottish health boards showed.
Some 482 cases of the disease, which largely disappeared from Britain more than half a century ago after efforts to improve diet and exposure to sunlight, were found across England. Glasgow is one of the most deprived local authority areas in Scotland with 32 percent of all children in the city were estimated to be living inAccording to the latest data from 2019, men living in the most deprived areas of the city on average live 15.4 years less than those in the most affluent parts.Health workers suggested an increase in diversity in the city plus
Data collated by The Times showed 112 cases of tuberculosis in 2022 and a sharp rise in scarlet fever diagnosis, with 223 cases in 2022 compared with 39 the year before."Victorian diseases are diseases of poverty and they are common in parts of the world where people are poor," Stephen Baker, a molecular microbiologist at the University of Cambridge, told the paper.
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