A bit of context

There are around 550,000 deaths a year in England and Wales, that is to say around 1,500 a day on average, rather more in the winter. Most of these are going to be older people.

So, of this total, I find around 25,000 among those aged 65 or more, where the underlying cause of death is given as pneumonia or influenza. Say, in round numbers, 75 a day. And around 90,000 among the same cohort where either of the same two complaints is at least mentioned on the death certificate. Again in round numbers, 250 a day.

All this and more turned up by Bing at the Office for National Statistics at reference 1. More or less all of it downloadable as Excel workbooks onto your own PC.

PS 1: I also remember the days when pneumonia was known as the old man's friend. Better to be carried off by pneumonia than to die a lingering death of something far more unpleasant. But that was before Dignity in Dying was invented. Or much in the way of palliative care.

PS 2: later: quite by chance I read this afternoon in the book by Delbourgo noticed at reference 3 that Isaac Newton spent a lot more time on Biblical computations than planetary ones. With one such computation being that the world would come to an end in 2066. One wonders whether he had plagues (prominent in the Book of Exodus) or climate change in mind?

Reference 1: https://www.ons.gov.uk.

Reference 2: https://www.dignityindying.org.uk/.

Reference 3: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/search?q=delbourgo.