Every year in Britain (and presumably most other
places, too) the death rate rises during the winter. This is due to such things
as elderly people being more prone to illness during the winter, a generally greater
risk of accidents etc. The extent to which the winter rate exceeds that for the
rest of the year is measured and used for the purpose of comparison, and today
it was reported that the ‘excess deaths’ for last winter were encouragingly lower
– at around 24,000 – than they had been for the previous year. One news source
I saw headlined this as:
Winter Kills 24,000 People!
I do believe there are probably people around the country who
think that 24,000 people froze to death last year.
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