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Victorian diseases reach five-year high

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Published date14 June 2022
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Experts are warning that anti-vaccine sentiment could see some of these Dickensian illnesses "bounce back" - while parents have been urged to be on the lookout for signs in children as cases continue to rise. Exclusive figures from the NHS reveal that patients in our area were diagnosed with one of 13 Victorian diseases when admitted to hospital on 41,346 occasions in the year to March

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They include all people admitted with these illnesses - which include gout, tuberculosis, malnutrition, whooping cough, measles, scurvy, typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, mumps, rickets, cholera, and vitamin D deficiency - even if it wasn't the primary reason for their admission. The number was up by 23 per cent from 33,564 hospital admissions in 2020/21, having dipped during the pandemic where previously it had been rising year-on-year. It puts the number of in-patients diagnosed with these diseases at the highest level seen since at least 2017/18, when these figures begin.

In particular, there were 22,659 cases of gout diagnosed in the year to March 2022 - up 26 per cent from 18,016 the year before - as well as 17,406 cases of vitamin D deficiency (up 22 per cent from 14,324). There were also 781 cases of malnutrition diagnosed, 343 cases of tuberculosis, 25 cases of rickets, 55 cases of scarlet fever, 37 cases of scurvy and 12 cases of typhoid fever.

A further 16 cases of mumps, five cases of whooping cough, two cases of measles and five cases of diphtheria were also diagnosed.

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Stephen Baker, a professor of microbiology at the University of Cambridge, said it was "amazing that in 2021 people are still getting scurvy" and that was mostly due to...

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