§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what estimate he has of the number of people who died from cold-related diseases in England in each year since 1979.
§ Mr. WhitneyThe table shows the numbers of deaths with a mention of hypothermia on the death certificate, regardless of whether it did or did not appear as the underlying cause of death, for England from 1979 to 1985.
Deaths with mention of hypothermia, all ages, persons Area of usual residence: England 1979–85 Number 1979 789 1980 555 1981 628 1982 611 1983 508 1984 516 *1985 753 * provisional
Many causes of death are cold-related in that the number of deaths from them increases in winter; hypothermia is the only cause that can be directly identified as a cold-related disease from mortality statistics.