EnglandRickets was commonplace among children between roughly 1760 and 1840.
Urbanization, latitude and socioeconomic status have long been named the main drivers of the disease.
Skeletons in a centuries-old cemetery link climate shocks to rickets, which stops a growing skeleton mineralizing properly.
Whether climate outweighed pollution, housing and limited sunlight is the question the cemetery data must now answer.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org
- foregrounds climate as an overlooked cause of Industrial Revolution rickets, beyond urbanization, latitude and class
Sources: Phys.org