Originally Posted by
wishiwasupthere
I posted earlier a link to the Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages website, where they publish monthly totals for the total number of deaths in the State for the previous 12 months. Interestingly, they’ve just updated it to include the total number of deaths in August of this year. Usually they include the previous 12 months so you can compare it to the same time period of the previous year, but conveniently now they’ve included August 2020 figures, but removed the August 2019 figures. Interesting because there was 200 more deaths in Victoria in August 2019 than there was in August 2020, in the midst of pandemic.
This is a screen grab I took a few days ago prior to the update showing the figures up to July 2020, and you’ll notice the July 2019 figures (and August 2019 too - 3892).
And here is a link to the updated August 2020 figures, with the August 2019 figures very conspicuous in their absence, which you can see in the screenshot above.
Deaths registered per month
You're not comparing apples with apples. For the months of Mar-Aug 20 there have been significant restrictions to freedom of movement as well as a social distancing regime. It stands to reason that the deaths have reduced. Not only has the lid been kept on COVID (relatively speaking) there's probably been a positive effect on other causes of death. Presumably any death is included, regardless of cause, in these figures. Granted you did say the figures were interesting and agreed, probably surprising.
There's nothing conspicuous about Aug 19 being missing. It's just a rolling list of 12 months of statistics.