Fifty-ninth annual report of the registrar-general

(Pages v-xvi) Marriages. Marriage-rate; relation between marriage rate and commercial activity; forms of marriage; Jewish marriages; previous civil condition of persons married; ages at marriage; signature in marriage register; buildings registered for the solemnization of marriages; certified places of worship

(Pages xvii-xxxv) Deaths. General death-rate; county death-rates; sex; ages; infantile mortality; urban and rural mortality; registered causes of death; changes of classification; zymotic, or specific febrile diseases; mortality from small-pox, measles, scarlet fever, enteric fever, diphtheria, and whooping-cough; epidemic influenza; diarrhoeal diseases; hydrophobia; puerperal fever; parasitic, dietetic, constitutional, developmental, and local diseases; deaths from violence; deaths from ill-defined and un-specified causes; certification of causes of death; deaths referred to coroners; inquests; uncertified causes of death

(Pages xxxv-xxxvi) 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

(Pages xxxvi-xxxvii) Births and deaths of British subjects at sea. Marine register book; mortality of mercantile marine; deaths among passengers

(Pages xxxviii-xl) Meteorology; remarks by James Glaisher, Esq., F. R. S

(Pages 75-116) Deaths in workhouses, hospitals, lunatic and idiot asylums

(Pages 129-236) 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

(Pages 279-285) Changes in the constitution of registration districts and sub-districts