Fifty-first annual report of the registrar-general
Table of Contents
(Pages i-iv) Title page & contents
(80 pages) Report
(Page v) Population. Probable approximate accuracy of official estimate
(Pages v-viii) Marriages. Marriage-rate; relation between marriage rate and commercial activity; forms of marriage; increase of civil and Jewish marriages; preference for marriage by banns; previous civil condition of persons married; ages of persons married; signatures in marriage registers; buildings registered for the solemnisation of marriages; certified places of worship
(Page viii) Births. Numbers and rates; sex; illegitimate births
(Pages viii-xviii) Deaths. General death-rate; county death-rates; sex; ages; infant mortality; deaths of reputed centenarians; urban and rural mortality; registered causes of death; zymotic or specific febrile diseases; puerperal fever; hydrophobia; parasitic, dietetic, constitutional, developmental, and local diseases; deaths from violence; ill-defined and not-specified causes; certification of the 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
(Page xviii) The army and navy. Strength and mortality of the army at home and abroad; strength and mortality of the navy
(Pages xviii-xix) Births and deaths of British subjects at sea; marine register book; mortality of mercantile marine
(Page xix) International vital statistics. Marriage, birth, and death rates
(Pages xix-xxviii) Zymotic mortality in relation to sex and age. Small-pox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping-cough, diarrhoea, enteric fever
(Page xxviii) General conclusions on the incidence of disease in regard to age and sex
(Pages xxix-xxx) Meteorology; remarks by James Glaisher, Esq., F. R. S
(Pages xxxi-lxxxiv) Preliminary tables
(203 pages) Abstracts
(Pages 1-70) Births, deaths, and marriages
(Pages 71-92) Deaths in workhouses, hospitals and public lunatic asylums
(Pages 93-103) Deaths of persons, males, and females, at different ages, in registration divisions and counties
(Pages 105-203) 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
(23 pages) Indices
(Pages 204-219) Indexes of registration districts, sub-districts, and of certain towns, referring to numbers used in the several tables of abstracts
(Pages 220-226) General index to report and tables