Deficiency Diseases

(asked on 3rd December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of (a) rickets and (b) scurvy there were in each year since 2010.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 10th December 2014

The following table shows a total count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of rickets and scurvy in England since 2010.

Finished Admission Episodes

Year

Scurvy

Rickets

2009-10

6

66

2010-11

8

66

2011-12

8

74

2012-13

18

65

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre

Note: This is not a count of patients as a person may be admitted more than once in a financial year.

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