As we approach eleven years of ongoing austerity from this Conservative Government, the NHS has described how there has been an increase of Dickensian diseases such as gout, whooping cough and scarlet fever.
There has been a sharp rise in hospital visits for diseases that were common during the Victorian era since 2010 which is being put down to cuts to local authority public health budgets, which experts say have resulted in the services that protect against illness being scaled back.
The Royal College of Nursing described the findings as concerning and said that the Government was 'failing the most vulnerable in our society'.
Scarlet fever cases have trebled, whooping cough has increased by 59%, malnutrition numbers have gone up by 38% as continuing austerity cuts make our society sicker.
The Governmental Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: 'We’re committed to ensuring everyone gets the same great health care no matter where they live, which is why our long term plan for the NHS puts tackling health inequalities at its heart'.
Obviously the plan isn't working as people suffer a resurgence of conditions associated with a bygone era due to a criminal lack of funding of our Health Service.
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