Undertaker – There are ’10 times more dead babies

‘We normally have about four or five funerals going, not 11, 12, and not all of that age group. There would be old people in there. And now, it’s quiet, and what I’ve seen is a lot of newborn babies in the fridges in the mortuaries.’

‘So do you want to talk about the number of newborn babies you’ve seen in the mortuaries?’

‘Oh, they’re really high. They’re up at 30 in one hospital.’

‘And, how many would they usually have?’

‘They have fridges that will hold about six to ten maximum, and they’re never normally full. But now, they’re all in the adults section.’

‘So there’s maybe ten times the rate you would usually have?’

‘Yeah, yeah. And obviously they’re either miscarried or full-term stillbirths, but not a lot’s been said about it.’

‘And, what else have you seen? Have you seen another uptake in deaths in younger people recently?’