Fifty-third annual report of the registrar-general
Table of Contents
(Pages i-iv) Title page & contents
(72 pages) Report
(Pages v-vi) Population. Estimated and actual increase
(Pages vi-viii) Marriages. Marriage-rate; relation between marriage rate and commercial activity; forms of marriage; increase of church and Roman Catholic marriages; preference for marriage by banns; previous civil condition of persons married; ages at marriage; signature in marriage register; buildings registered for the solemnisation of marriages; certified places of worship
(Page ix) Births. Numbers and rates; sex; illegitimate births
(Pages ix-xvii) Deaths. General death-rate; county death-rates; sex; ages; excessive mortality after middle age; infant mortality, comparison between sexes; urban and rural mortality; registered causes of death; zymotic or specific febrile diseases; epidemic influenza; hydrophobia; puerperal fever; dietetic, constitutional, developmental, and local diseases; deaths from violence; deaths of infants from suffocation in bed; ill-defined and un-specified causes; certification of causes of death
(Page xviii) Offences against the registration act
(Page xviii) Progress of registration. Aggregate number of names on the registers; number of searches in the registers and of certificates granted at the central office; fees received
(Page xviii) The army and navy. Strength and mortality of the army at home and abroad; strength and mortality of the navy
(Page xix) Births and deaths of British subjects at sea. Marine register book; mortality of mercantile marine; mortality among passengers
(Page xix) International vital statistics. Rise in death rates
(Pages xx-xxii) Meteorology; remarks by James Glaisher, Esq., F. R. S
(Pages xxiii-lxxvi) Preliminary tables
(205 pages) Abstracts
(Pages 1-70) Births, deaths, and marriages
(Pages 71-94) Deaths in workhouses, hospitals, and public lunatic asylums
(Pages 95-105) Deaths of persons, males, and females, at different ages in registration divisions and counties
(Pages 107-205) Causes of death at different periods of life in England and in London. Causes of death in registration counties. Deaths from several causes in registration divisions, counties and districts. Violent deaths
(25 pages) Indexes
(Pages 206-221) Indexes of registration districts, sub-districts, and of certain towns, referring to numbers used in the several tables of abstracts
(Pages 222-229) General index to report and tables