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Mike Tullett writes:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:59:30 +0000, John Hall wrote in
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"...looks at the big freezes of 1947, 1963 and Febraury 2009"
Are they 'avin a laff?
Dave


Hopefully the makers of the programme will have a bit more clue than
whoever put together that blurb.

I think they are still making this programme as I've just been contacted by
the company producing it with a question.

"Would you happen to have any data on how many people have died in the
winter of 1962/63?"

I'm assuming it is the extra deaths in that winter, but I haven't got a
clue what the answer is. Has anyone here?


I imagine the major cause of extra deaths would be hypothermia, mainly
affecting old people. Of course houses were generally less well heated
and insulated then, which would increases the numbers further compared
to more recent winters. I think such deaths would dwarf deaths from
accidents caused by the weather.

They would probably do best to ask the Department of Health. They ought
to have some statistics on how the number of deaths during that winter
compared with the average.
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)