









Seventy-ninth annual report of the registrar-general
Table of Contents
(Pages i-vi) Title page & contents
(3 pages)
Introductory remarks

(Pages vii-viii) Salient features of the vital statistics of the year
(Pages viii-ix) Changes in the report
(78 pages)
Review by Dr. Stevenson of the vital statistics of the year

(Pages x-xi)
Population

(Pages xi-xvii)
Marriages

(Pages xvii-xx)
Births

(Pages xx-xlix)
Deaths

(Pages xlix-l)
Causes of death

(Pages l-li)
Enteric fever

(Page li) Small-pox
(Pages li-lii)
Measles

(Page lii)
Scarlet fever

(Pages lii-liii)
Whooping cough

(Page liii) Vaccinia
(Pages liii-liv)
Tuberculosis

(Pages liv-lv)
Phthisis

(Page lv)
Tuberculous meningitis

(Page lv)
Tuberculosis of the peritoneum and intestines

(Pages lvi-lx)
Syphilis

(Pages lx-lxvi)
Cancer

(Pages lxvi-lxvii)
Tumours (not returned as malignant)

(Pages lxvii-lxx)
Alcoholism

(Page lxx) Poliomyelitis
(Page lxxi)
Cerebro-spinal fever

(Pages lxxi-lxxv)
Arterio-sclerosis

(Page lxxv)
Pneumonia

(Pages lxxv-lxxix)
The puerperal state

(Pages lxxix-lxxx)
Anaesthetics

(Page lxxxi) Status lymphaticus
(Pages lxxxi-lxxxii)
Suicide

(Pages lxxxii-lxxxiii)
Ill-defined causes of death

(Pages lxxxiii-lxxxiv)
Deaths in institutions for the sick or infirm

(Pages lxxxiv-lxxxvi)
United Kingdom

(Page lxxxvi) Births and deaths at sea
(Page lxxxvi) Progress of registration
(Page lxxxvi) Offences against the registration acts
(Pages lxxxvi-lxxxvii) Searches and certificates
(Pages lxxxviii-xcii) Meteorology of the year 1916
(61 pages)
Tables

(Page 1) Note on temporarily discontinued tables
(Pages 2-3) 1. United Kingdom: Population of its several portions estimated to the Middle of each of the years 1867-1916
(Page 4) 2. Marriages, births, and deaths, 1867-1916
(Page 5) 3. Annual marriage-, birth-, and death-rates and infant mortality, 1838-1916
(Page 6) 4. Annual marriage-, birth-, and crude death-rates in each quarter in groups of years, 1838-1916, and in each year, 1907-1916
(Page 6) 5. Churches and chapels of the Established Church and registered buildings in which marriages could be legally solemnised, 31st December, 1916
(Page 7) 6. Annual death-rates at twelve groups of ages, general death-rate standardized for sex-and age-constitution of population, and infant mortality, 1838-1916 males
(Page 8) 7. Annual death-rates at twelve groups of ages, general death-rate standardized for sex-and age-constitution of population, and infant mortality, 1838-1916 Females
(Page 9) 8. Annual death-rates at twelve groups of ages, general death-rate standardized for sex-and age-constitution of population, and infant mortality, 1838-1916, Persons
(Pages 10-19) 9. Deaths from various causes at all ages, 1902-1916 males, females, and persons (list of causes as in use prior to 1911)
(Pages 20-29) 10. Crude annual death-rates from various causes at all ages to a million living, 1902-1916 males, females, and persons (list of causes as in use prior to 1911)
(Pages 30-34) 11. Crude death-rates at all ages from various causes, 1916 males, females, and persons (international list of causes)
(Page 35) 12. Annual death-rates from the principal epidemic diseases, 1838-1916
(Pages 36-40) 13. Administrative counties and county boroughs: Mortality from the principal epidemic diseases and from certain other causes, 1915 and 1916
(Pages 41-42) 14. Infant mortality by sex, age, cause, and legitimacy, 1916
(Pages 43-47) 15. Infant mortality by age, cause, and legitimacy, 1916 classes of administrative areas
(Page 48) 16. Names on the registers, searches, and fees received at the general register office, 1867-1916
(Page 49) 17. Islands in the British Seas. Area and population; and births and deaths, 1892-1910
(Page 49) 18. Balance inward or outward on passenger movement into and out of the United Kingdom, 1897-1916
(Pages 50-51) 19. United Kingdom and its several divisions, vital statistics
(Pages 52-53) 20. Meteorological elements, Greenwich, 1867-1916
(Pages 54-55) 21. Meteorological elements, Greenwich, quarterly, 1916
(Pages 56-57) 22. Meteorological table for London, 1916
(Pages 58-61) 23. Meteorological elements at several stations, 1916
(431 pages)
Abstracts

(Pages 62-79)
Marriages

(Pages 80-112) Estimated "birth-rate" population and civil population, births (legitimate and illegitimate), birth-rate, deaths, crude death-rate and infant mortality in each administrative area and in summarized areas
(Pages 113-492)
Deaths
