Five Victorian-era diseases making a comeback in UK - all the symptoms to look for

They are the kind of diseases that author Charles Dickens would have been used to chronicling in his tales about the Victorian working classes.

But remarkably, diseases such as scarlet fever and malnutrition are back and on the rise in some instances.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has put out data in the past few months showing scarlet fever and syphilis are also on the up.