But the working-classes, who did not work because factories were closed for lack of coal and raw material, just starved, keeping the flame of life aflicker by a thin and miserable diet, until the weakest died. Eighty-three per cent. of the children had rickets in an advanced stage. Children of three and four had never sat up or walked. Thousands of children were just living skeletons, with gaunt cheek-bones and bloodless lips.
Philip Gibbs. People of Destiny: Americans as I saw them at Home and Abroad (1920)
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Archer: I don't think it's feasible to build a radio tube factory here.
Pam: Yeah, there's probably zoning issues.
Archer: That's your number one concern?
Pam: I haven't ranked them.
Archer: Well, mine is rickets, and scurvy, and scabies, and whatever other bullshit diseases poor people get.
Adam Reed. Archer, sineason 9, Danger Island: "Different Modes of Preparing the Fruit", @5:00 (2018)
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The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic, and the pustules of pellegra swelled on their sides.