By Susie Beever A Victorian disease remains prevalent among children in Britain – and now a breakdown has revealed exactly how many cases have been recorded where. More than 8,000 cases of scarlet fever have been confirmed in the 2023/24 season so far, The Mirror has previously reported. The bacterial illness affects predominantly youngsters and was one of the leading causes of infant death in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Thankfully the vast majority of children who catch it today will be fine, but it can still be extremely serious and reports of the disease have shot up in recent months. …