Vitamin D production is light work (Image: S Tasker/Getty Images)
Editorial: “Down with this Dickensian disease“
LAST month, Rohan Wray and Chana Al-Alas walked free from the Old Bailey court in London after being Jayden in 2009. The injuries to his skull, knee, elbow, shoulder, hip, ankle and wrist – and haemorrhages in his skull and eyes – had seemed to suggest that the pair was responsible for their baby’s death.
Post-mortems revealed a different story. Jayden had rickets, a Dickensian disease caused by a shortage of vitamin D, making his bones abnormally weak and vulnerable…
