Fifty-sixth annual report of the registrar-general

(Pages v-viii) Marriages. Marriage-rate; relation between marriage rate and commercial activity; forms of marriage; increase of 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 ix-xviii) Deaths. General death-rate; county death-rates; sex; ages; infantile mortality; urban and rural mortality; registered causes of death; zymotic or specific febrile diseases; increased mortality from small-pox, scarlet fever, enteric fever, and diphtheria; epidemic influenza; diarrhoeal complaints, high mortality; hydrophobia; puerperal fever; parasitic, dietetic, constitutional, developmental, and local diseases; deaths from violence; ill-defined and un-specified causes; certification of causes of death

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

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

(Pages 71-94) Deaths in workhouses, hospitals, and public lunatic asylums

(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

(Pages 206-221) Indexes of registration districts, sub-districts, and of certain towns, referring to numbers used in the several tables of abstracts