‘The problem is such that statistics from the NHS show that patients in England were diagnosed with one of 13 Victorian diseases when admitted to hospital 421,370 times in the year to March 2022. That includes gout, cholera, TB, scurvy, mumps, malnutrition, whooping cough, measles, typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, rickets, and vitamin D deficiency – even if it was not the primary reason for their admission.’
Back to good ol’ Bri’ish diseases like scurvy. None of that China virus for us thanks, we’ll just go back to the good old days where TB and gout was rife!
We ‘ad lots o’ things in them days they don’t have now: rickets, diphtheria, ‘itler ..
This article is bizarre. What qualifies gout as a victorian disease when it’s been around for thousands of years and isn’t linked to poor living conditions / sanitation/lack of vitamins like some of the others are (scurvy, cholera etc)
‘Gout’ is what the Victorians called arthritis in those extremities.
Victorian Disease? Is that the one where you wear a monocle and disown your daughter for showing her ankles?
JRM, will be ecstatic about the return of more victorian stuff
It’s a result of too much Uric acid. I have arthritis but it’s a different type and hereditary. There’s lots of kinds of arthritis.
But there are many conditions associated with the low activity, unhealthy diet lifestyle which are becoming an issue in the UK. When you think about it, the way we live is so unnatural, it’s not surprising. We can just hold out a hand and food appears. No having to hunt, milk a cow, plough a field.
[Gout according to the NHS](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gout/)
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‘The problem is such that statistics from the NHS show that patients in England were diagnosed with one of 13 Victorian diseases when admitted to hospital 421,370 times in the year to March 2022. That includes gout, cholera, TB, scurvy, mumps, malnutrition, whooping cough, measles, typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, rickets, and vitamin D deficiency – even if it was not the primary reason for their admission.’
Back to good ol’ Bri’ish diseases like scurvy. None of that China virus for us thanks, we’ll just go back to the good old days where TB and gout was rife!
We ‘ad lots o’ things in them days they don’t have now: rickets, diphtheria, ‘itler ..
This article is bizarre. What qualifies gout as a victorian disease when it’s been around for thousands of years and isn’t linked to poor living conditions / sanitation/lack of vitamins like some of the others are (scurvy, cholera etc)
This blog from the health security agency covers it much better and doesn’t include gout in the definition https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2019/03/28/are-victorian-diseases-making-a-comeback/
‘Gout’ is what the Victorians called arthritis in those extremities.
Victorian Disease? Is that the one where you wear a monocle and disown your daughter for showing her ankles?
JRM, will be ecstatic about the return of more victorian stuff
It’s a result of too much Uric acid. I have arthritis but it’s a different type and hereditary. There’s lots of kinds of arthritis.
But there are many conditions associated with the low activity, unhealthy diet lifestyle which are becoming an issue in the UK. When you think about it, the way we live is so unnatural, it’s not surprising. We can just hold out a hand and food appears. No having to hunt, milk a cow, plough a field.
[Gout according to the NHS](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gout/)