9mm -mutter, grumble....

[stuart noble]

Let's not forget the OP had an alternative fixing method to hand, as would most halfway competent d-i-yers, and we're not living in the 1940s.

[soup]

So did Rickets.

[Roger Mills]

. . which is apparently coming back because people are keeping their kids out of the sun, to avoid skin cancer!

[dennis]

Still is, but that's tradition for you.

[Andy Champ]

There are also problems with certain minorities who tend to cover themselves completely and have built-in tans.

BTW Vitamin D deficiency appears to be linked with a number of other diseases, such as MS, and without such a severe deficiency.

Andy

[polygonum]

And when it is associated, it if often unclear whether the disease has contributed to the low D level, the low D to the disease, they are simply associated, or what...

Should anyone wish to find out what their D level is, this is possibly the cheapest decent test in the country:

[grimly4]

Their mustard is good.