Forty-fourth annual report of the registrar-general
Table of Contents
(Pages i-iv) Title page & contents
(120 pages)
Report
Report(Page v) Introduction
(Page v) Increase of population
(Pages vi-xiv) Marriages; marriage-rate; relation between marriage rate and commercial activity; favourite seasons and days for marriage; number of marriages celebrated according and not according to the rites of the Established Church; previous condition of persons married; divorce: Ages of persons married; signatures in marriage registers; buildings registered for the solemnization of marriages; certified places of worship
(Page xv) Births. Number registered and birth-rate; illegitimate births and rate; sex
(Pages xv-xxv) Deaths. Number registered; general death-rate; local rates; sex; mortality of males and females at various aged; new classification of the registered causes of death; inadequate certification of causes; registered causes of death of different classes; certification of causes of death
(Page xxv) Progress of registration. Aggregate number of names on the registers; number of searches in the registers and of certificates granted at the central office
(Page xxvi) The army. Strength and mortality of the army at home and abroad
(Page xxvi) The navy. Strength and mortality of the navy
(Pages xxvi-xxvii) Births and deaths of British subjects at sea; marine register book; mortality of mercantile marine
(Page xxvii) European states. Marriage, birth, and death rates
(Pages xxix-xxxiv) Appendix to report. Alphabetical list of diseases affected by the changes of classification
(Pages xxxv-xl) Meteorology; remarks by James Glaisher, Esq., F. R. S
(Pages xli-cxxiii) Preliminary tables
Preliminary tables(Page xlii) 1. Population, marriages, births, and deaths registered in England, in the forty-four years 1838-81
(Page xliii) 2. Proportions of persons married, births, and deaths to 1000 of the population of England, in the forty-four years 1838-81
(Page xliv) 3. Proportions of persons married, of births and of deaths to 1000 of the population of England, in the forty-three years 1838-81
(Page xlv) 4. Marriages in England in the forty-one years 1841-81
(Page xlvi) 5. Proportion per cent. of marriages in England in each of the forty-one years 1841-81, solemnised according to, and not according to, the rites of the Established Church; also of civil marriages in superintendent registrar's office
(Page xlvii) 6. Marriages in England in the forty-one years 1841-1881, civil conditions of persons married; number of minors married; and of persons who signed the marriage register with marks
(Page xlviii) 7. Marriages in England, and annual rate of persons married per 1000 living, in each quarter of the forty-four years 1838-81
(Page xlix) 8. Marriages in England. The proportion per cent. of minors of each sex, of males and females who signed the register with marks, and of persons who were widowers and widows, in the forty-one years 1841-81
(Page l) 9. Persons married to 1000 persons living in the registration counties of England in the eleven years 1871-81
(Page li) 10. Proportional numbers of persons married in the registration counties of England during the year 1881; of persons, who signed the register with marks; of persons not of full age; and of re-marriages
(Page lii) 11. Number of buildings registered for the solemnization of marriages, and on the register on 31st December 1881; classified according to the several Christian denominations by which they were registered
(Page liii) 12. Births and annual birth rate per 1000 living in England in each quarter of the forty-four years 1838-81
(Page liv) 13. Legitimate and illegitimate births and birth-rates in England in the forty-four years 1838-81; proportion of males to females born
(Page lv) 14. Proportion of illegitimate children to every 100 births in the registration counties of England in the eleven years 1871-81
(Page lvi) 15. Births of male and female children, legitimate and illegitimate, in the registration counties of England in 1881
(Page lvii) 16. Proportion of male and female children born in the registration counties of England in the eleven years, 1871-81
(Page lviii) 17. Birth-rate per 1000 persons living in the registration counties of England in the eleven years, 1871-81
(Page lix) 18. Estimated population and annual rate of mortality of males and of females in England, in the forty-four years 1838-81; and proportion of deaths of males to those of females
(Page lx) 19. Deaths and annual death-rate per 1000 persons living, of deaths in England during each quarter of the forty-four years 1838-81
(Page lxi) 20. Death-rate per 1000 persons living in the registration counties of England in the eleven years 1871-1881
(Page lxii) 21. England. Deaths registered at different ages in the forty-four years 1838-81. Males
(Page lxiii) 22. England. Deaths registered at different ages in the forty-four years 1838-81. Females
(Page lxiv) 23. England. Mortality per 1000 at twelve groups of ages in forty-four years 1838-80
(Page lxv) 24. England. Annual rate of mortality per 1000 males living at twelve groups of ages in the forty-four years 1838-81
(Page lxvi) 25. England. Annual rate of mortality per 1000 females living at twelve groups of ages in the forty-four years 1838-81
(Page lxvii) 26. Death-rate per 1000 persons living at twelve groups of age in the registration counties, in 1881
(Page lxviii) 27. Deaths of children under one year to 1000 births in the registration counties of England in the eleven years 1871-81
(Page lxix) 28. Proportional mortality of children under one year of age from different causes to 1000 births, in England, and in 15 large English towns, 1873-80, and 1881
(Page lxx) 29. Deaths of 91 persons (25 males and 66 females) registered in England and Wales in 1881, and returned as aged 100 years and upwards
(Page lxxi) 30. Causes of death in England in 1881. Proportional number dying from each cause, to 1000000 deaths from all causes
(Pages lxxii-lxxiii) 31. Deaths ascribed to various causes in England and Wales in the 24 years 1858-81
(Pages lxxiv-lxxv) 32. Rates of mortality from various causes per 1000000 persons living in England and Wales in the 24 years 1858-81
(Pages lxxvi-lxxvii) 33. Mean annual death-rate from various causes per 1000000 persons living in England and Wales, in groups of years
(Pages lxxviii-lxxix) 34. Mortality from the principal zymotic diseases, and proportion of infant mortality to births in England and Wales, 1838-81
(Pages lxxx-lxxxi) 35. Mortality from the principal zymotic diseases, and proportion of infant mortality to births in London, 1838-81
(Pages lxxxii-lxxxiii) 36. England. Death-rate per 1000 persons living from certain causes in each of the registration counties in 1881
(Page lxxxiv) 37. Causes of death of males and of females in England in 1881. Deaths from each cause to 1000000 living of each sex
(Page lxxxv) 38. Deaths from scarlet fever in the registration counties of England in the eleven years 1871-1881
(Page lxxxvi) 39. Deaths in England from fever, at several groups of ages, in the 17 years 1865-81
(Page lxxxvi) 40. Deaths from fever typhus, enteric or typhoid, simple and ill-defined fever in England to 10000 persons living, and proportional number to 1000 deaths, in the 32 years 1850-81
(Page lxxxvii) 41. Deaths from fever (typhus, enteric or typhoid, simple and ill-defined) in the registration counties of England in the eleven years, 1871-81
(Page lxxxviii) 42. Deaths in England in 1881 of women after childbearing, assigned to various diseases, other than childbirth or puerperal fever
(Page lxxxix) 43. Deaths in England in 1881 of women who were returned as pregnant, with the assigned causes
(Page xc) 44. Deaths in England of women referred to childbirth in the 35 years 1847-81
(Page xci) 45. Births registered, deaths referred to childbirth, and mortality of mothers per 1000 children born alive, in each of the registration counties of England in 1881
(Page xcii) 46. The average prices of consols of wheat, of meat, of potatoes, and of coal, and also the average number of paupers relieved on the last day of each week, in the thirty years 1852-81, and in each quarter of the eight years 1874-1881
(Page xciii) 47. Annual rate of mortality per 1000 in town and county districts of England in the 31 years 1851-81
(Page xciv) 48. Annual rate of mortality per 1000 in town and county districts of England in each quarter of the eleven years 1871-1881
(Page xcv) 49. Aggregate number of names on the register on the 31st December of each of the forty-five years 1837-81; also the annual number of searches in the registers at the central office (exclusive of searches in non-parochial registers), and amount of fees received for all searches and certificates
(Page xcvi) 50. Area, estimated population, and marriages, births, and deaths registered in the United Kingdom, in the year 1881
(Page xcvi) 51. Proportion per 1000 of marriages, births, and deaths to the population of the United Kingdom, in the year 1881
(Page xcvii) 52. Population, area, births, and deaths in the Islands in the British Seas in the thirty-one years 1851-1881
(Page xcviii) 53. Number and destination of emigrants (including foreigners) in the ten years 1872-81
(Page xcviii) 54. Number and destination of emigrants of English origin in the ten years 1872-81
(Page xcix) 55. Average strength of the army at home, in 1881
(Page xcix) 56. Average strength of the British army in the twenty-one years 1861-81, and its distribution in different parts of the United Kingdom and abroad
(Page xcix) 57. Average strength, deaths, and annual rate of mortality per 1000 of the army in the United Kingdom in 1881
(Page c) 58. Average strength of the British army abroad in the years 1878-81
(Page c) 59. Number of deaths in the British army in the years 1878-1881
(Page c) 60. Annual rate of mortality per 1000 amongst the officers and non-commissioned officers and men in the army at home and abroad, in the years 1859-81
(Page ci) 61. Nationality of the army serving at home and abroad in 1861, 1871 and 1881
(Page ci) 62. Deaths of officers and men in the army abroad, and estimated numbers belonging to England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and foreign parts, in the twenty-four years 1858-1881
(Page cii) 63. Births and deaths among passengers, British subjects, on board merchant vessels at sea, including soldiers, marines, and invalided seamen from the royal navy, in each of the twenty-six years 1856-1881
(Page ciii) 64. Mortality of merchant seamen at sea, in the thirty years 1852-81
(Page civ) 65. Return of the ages, and causes of death of 4464 seamen reported to the board of trade in the year 1881 as having died in the British merchant service
(Page civ) 66. Mortality in the royal navy, death-rate from all causes and from disease alone, in the service afloat, in the twenty-six years 1856-1881
(Page cv) 67. Changes in the constitution of the registration districts and sub-districts during the year 1881
(Pages cvi-cvii) 68. Mean annual values of meteorological elements in 1881. By James Glaisher, Esq., F. R. S
(Pages cviii-cix) 69. Mean annual values of meteorological elements in 1881 for different parallels of latitude
(Pages cviii-cix) 70. Meteorology of Greenwich in the thirty-three years 1849-1881
(Pages cx-cxi) 71. Greenwich monthly meteorology in 1881
(Pages cx-cxi) 72. Meteorological table for London in 1881
(Pages cxii-cxv) 73. Population of the United Kingdom estimated to the middle of the eighty-two years 1801-82, exclusive of the population of the Islands in the British Seas, and of the portions of the army, navy, and merchant service abroad
(Page cxvi) 74. Proportions of persons married, births, and deaths per 1000 of the population in thirteen European states
(Page cxvii) 75. England and Wales. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1881
(Page cxvii) 76. Denmark (the kingdom properly so called). Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1850 to 1881
(Page cxviii) 77. Norway. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1871 to 1880
(Page cxviii) 78. Sweden. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1850 to 1881
(Page cxix) 79. Austria. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1881
(Page cxix) 80. Hungary and Transylvania. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1866 to 1881
(Page cxx) 81. Switzerland. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1868 to 1881
(Page cxx) 82. German Empire. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1872 to 1881
(Page cxxi) 83. Prussia. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1881
(Page cxxi) 84. The Netherlands. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1881
(Page cxxii) 85. Belgium. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1881
(Page cxxii) 86. France. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1881
(Page cxxiii) 87. Spain. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1861 to 1870
(Page cxxiii) 88. Italy. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1864 to 1881
(223 pages) Abstracts
Abstracts(Pages 1-28) Marriages
Marriages(Pages 2-25) Marriages registered in England in each of the registration divisions, counties, and districts; distinguishing those according and those not according to the rites of the Established Church, and the number in each quarter of the year; distinguishing also the previous civil condition of persons married, minority, and signature of the register by marks
(Pages 26-28) Ages of persons married, distinguishing those of bachelors, spinsters, widowers, widows
(Pages 29-91) Births and deaths, in the divisions, counties, districts, and sub-districts of England
Births and deaths, in the divisions, counties, districts, and sub-districts of England(Pages 30-91) Births and deaths registered, and excess of births over deaths, in each of the divisions, counties, districts, and sub-districts; distinguishing the sexes in divisions and counties, and illegitimate births throughout
Births and deaths registered, and excess of births over deaths, in each of the divisions, counties, districts, and sub-districts; distinguishing the sexes in divisions and counties, and illegitimate births throughout(Pages 30-31) Summary of England, its divisions and counties
(Pages 32-35) London
(Pages 35-42) South Eastern counties
(Pages 43-48) South Midland counties
(Pages 48-53) Eastern counties
(Pages 53-60) South Western counties
(Pages 61-68) West Midland counties
(Pages 68-72) North Midland counties
(Pages 72-76) North Western counties
(Pages 77-82) Yorkshire
(Pages 82-86) Northern counties
(Pages 86-91) Monmouthshire and Wales
(Pages 93-114) Deaths in public institutions, 1881
Deaths in public institutions, 1881(Pages 93-114) Deaths of males and females in public institutions
(Pages 115-136) Deaths at different ages, 1881, in divisions, counties, and districts, distinguishing males and females in divisions and counties
Deaths at different ages, 1881, in divisions, counties, and districts, distinguishing males and females in divisions and counties(Pages 116-136) Deaths of males and females at different ages registered in divisions, counties, and districts
(Pages 137-223) Causes of death at different ages in England and in London. Causes of death in counties. Deaths from several causes in divisions, counties, and districts. Violent deaths
Causes of death at different ages in England and in London. Causes of death in counties. Deaths from several causes in divisions, counties, and districts. Violent deaths(Pages 138-145) Causes of death of males and females at different periods of life
(Pages 146-153) Causes of death of males and females in London at different periods of life
(Pages 154-177) Causes of death of males and females in England, and in each of the divisions and counties
(Pages 178-210) Deaths from several zymotic and other causes, and inquest cases, in divisions, counties, and districts
(Pages 211-217) Violent deaths from accident and negligence, distinguishing sex and age
(Pages 214-217) Deaths of intoxicated persons from accident and other causes; males and females
(Pages 218-219) Deaths returned as having occurred from suicide, distinguishing sex, age, and method
(Pages 220-221) Deaths returned as having occurred from murder, distinguishing sex, age, and method
(Pages 222-223) Deaths returned as having occurred from manslaughter, distinguishing sex, age, and character
(33 pages) Indices
Indices(Pages 224-239) Indexes of districts, sub-districts, and of certain towns, referring to numbers used in the several tables of abstracts
(Pages 241-254) Alphabetical index to report and tables