On Friday, 8 February 2013 05:32:52 UTC, Sleepalot wrote:
Lawrence13 wrote:



I'd be interested to see those statistics as stuff like that is ahrd to find.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/7360644@N07/5770383378/in/photostream

Thanks Sleepatlot, I have on many occassion spent hours trawling for stuff like that and never seem to find simple graphs, but apparently you put that one together? Funny thing is I can't believe that fatalities were lower in 1952 than the many of the years around it with 1951 more than 3 times higher. I say that as 1952 was the year of a terrible smog over London and possibly other areas of the country with over 4000 deaths attributable to the awful conditions, 1962 when there was another exceptional period of smog just before Christmas and the New Year and taht is possibly reflected in those figures in 63?

What were the causes of those winter deaths -surely not just hypothermia?

Are flu outbreaks included?