Diseases once associated with the Victorian era are rocketing in Britain today, figures show

DISEASES associated with the Victorian era are rocketing in Britain today, figures show.

Hospital admissions for rickets, gout, syphilis and scarlet fever are on the up.

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Experts said falling living standards, financial inequality, and diet are all to blame.

The 2009/10 to 2015/16 figures show rickets cases soared from 675 to 937.

Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is thought to have had the bone disease — caused by a Vitamin D deficiency due to lack of sunshine or poor diet.

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The Resolution Foundation think-tank said in January that rising inflation meant the poor could not afford the nutritious grub to keep it at bay. Strong sunblock has also been blamed.

Cases of gout, linked to boozing, and eating fatty foods and offal, went from 6,908 to 9,708.

It was widespread among the rich in the 1800s. The increase today is caused by the “obesity epidemic” and ageing population, the UK Gout Society said.

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Reports of syphilis shot from 2,646 to 5,217, with a rise in unprotected sex blamed. Scarlet fever cases spiralled from 381 to 1,135.

All four are likely to be more prevalent as not all sufferers will have gone to hospital.

Public Health England said the ailments were monitored “to better understand their transmission and control spread”.

It said the findings were passed to the NHS and local authorities, which tackle them.