As befits an industrialised country, Britain's public-health problems are those of wealth rather than poverty. But beneath headlines about fat, cigarettes and a national epidemic of drunkenness, two diseases that were believed vanquished decades ago are re-emerging. Both are linked to immigration. On December 28th the Department of Health (doh) confirmed what doctors have long suspected: rickets seems to be on the rise. The disease-thought to have been eradicated in the 1950s-stunts growth and deforms the skeleton, characteristically causing bowed legs and worse.
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