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David Naugler
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 5:31 pm
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Cold Weather Kills 2,500 in UK

posted by admin on Wednesday December 24, @10:00AM
from the Politics-vs.-People dept.


Daisy Miller writes "More than 2,500 people in England and Wales are
likely to have died in the past week as a direct result of cold
weather, health forecasters say. Research published on Tuesday by the
Faculty of Public Health and the Met Office shows they will have died
from treatable ailments. It says a higher proportion of the UK's
population dies as a result of the cold than in either Finland or
Russia. The researchers say the "needless" deaths put a strain on the
NHS.

Most are caused by heart or breathing problems brought on by the cold
and damp. On Monday it emerged that an elderly couple in south London
died a few weeks after their gas was cut off due to non-payment of a
£140 bill. George Bates, 89, and his 86-year old wife Gertrude were
found on 18 October in the Tooting home they had shared for 64 years.
British Gas said the Data Protection Act prohibited them from passing
information on the situation to social services.

Former director general of Age Concern England, Baroness Greengross,
called for a review of the act, saying many professionals do not
understand what they can and cannot say. She told Today: "At the
moment it looks as though we're protecting data at the expense of
people.
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Vendicar Decarian
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 2:14 am
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"David Naugler" <dnaugler@sfu.ca> wrote in message
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From:
http://freeinternetpress.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/24/200210&mode=thread

Cold Weather Kills 2,500 in UK

posted by admin on Wednesday December 24, @10:00AM
from the Politics-vs.-People dept.

Daisy Miller writes "More than 2,500 people in England and Wales are
likely to have died in the past week as a direct result of cold
weather, health forecasters say. Research published on Tuesday by the
Faculty of Public Health and the Met Office shows they will have died
from treatable ailments.

It certainly looks like less heat is being conducted to England by the
weakening Gulf Stream. Exactly as Global Warming theories predict.
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