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  Chief Medical Officer 'ashamed' as rickets makes a comeback
  40 per cent of English children have some kind of vitamin D deficiency
  
  The Victorian-era disease rickets has returned to England, the country's Chief Medical Officer has said, and should be fought off through a universal handout of vitamin supplements to all children under five.
  
  In a damning report on the state of children's health, Dame Sally Davies said that the country should be "profoundly ashamed" that child mortality rates in some of the poorest parts of England were three times higher than rich regions.
  
  Warning that today's children face a far more uncertain future than her own generation, she set out a range of recommendations to tackle urgent problems such as rising child obesity rates, a lack of effective mental health services for children and growing rates of vitamin deficiency.

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