Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
No sure where you got that notion from, but it's way off the mark. The latest figures released by the ONS (up to and including mid-October) state that 484,206 deaths have been registered in the UK so far this year, which is 55,092 more than the five-year average.

The figures for August were either almost bang on or slightly above the five-year average.
Was it July then? Saw it in some graph out of the billions thrust upon us, so forgive me if not right. If you think about it, so many died in April and May who might well have gone later on, so fewer deaths in the month’s thereafter makes sense.