Gout, cholera, scarlet fever, TB all increasing in the UK (low vitamin D)

The Victorian diseases putting people in Merseyside in hospital

  • “… 315 occasions in 2017/18 on which people were treated as inpatients in hospitals in the area for one of 13 Victorian diseases - up from 254 the previous year.

    The 13 'Victorian' diseases

  • Gout

  • Tuberculosis

  • Malnutrition

  • Whooping cough

  • Measles

  • Scurvy

  • Typhoid

  • Scarlet fever UK Dec 2022

  • Diphtheria

  • Mumps

  • Rickets

  • Vitamin D deficiency

  • Cholera

    • “More than half (165) of the finished admission episodes covered by the Merseyside Area Team were for gout….”
    • “A further 60 were for scarlet fever, while malnutrition specifically saw 25 admissions, and measles saw 15.”

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Tags: Tuberculosis