Registrar General

1836-1840

1841-1850

1851-1860

1861-1870

1871-1880
        England
        Scotland

1881-1890

1891-1900

1901-1910

1911-1920

1921-1930

TNA Enumerators' Books

TNA Census - Other TNA Registration TNA Maps

Essays

Legislation Bibliography

Thirty-ninth annual report of the registrar-general

(Pages i-iv) Title page & contents

(112 pages)

Report

(Pages v-xi) Progress and economic value of the English population

(Pages xi-xiii) Emigration from the United Kingdom

(Page xiii) Increase of population

(Pages xiii-xv) Meteorology at Greenwich; prices of wheat and meat; number and value of animals imported, and quantity of meat imported; pauperism

(Pages xv-xxiii) Marriages; marriage-rate; number celebrated according and not according to the rites of the Established Church; previous condition of persons married; ages of persons married; marriages of minors; signatures in marriage registers; educational condition of different counties, as shown by the signatures of marriage registers; buildings registered for the solemnization of marriages; certified places of worship; designations of religious bodies

(Pages xxiii-xxvi) Births. Number registered; birth-rate; children born out of wedlock

(Pages xxvi-xxxv) Deaths. Number registered; death-rate; mortality in town and country; mortality of males and females at various ages; seasons; locality; mortality of children under one year of age in eng-land and in 18 large towns. Death-rate of children under five years of age in 17 large towns. Deaths in public institutions in England and in London

(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

(Page xxxvi) United Kingdom. Population, emigration, marriage, birth, and death rates

(Page xxxvii) The army. Strength and mortality of the army at home and abroad

(Pages xxxvii-xxxviii) The navy. Strength and mortality of the navy

(Pages xxxviii-xxxix) Births and deaths of British subjects at sea; marine register book; mortality of mercantile marine; mortality by drowning in the merchant service compared with that in the royal navy

(Page xl) Wills. Numbers and values of probates and administrations; calendars of grants of probate and administration kept at the general register office

(Pages xl-xliii) European states. Marriage, birth, and death rates; some results of the census of France in 1876

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

(Pages xlvii-cxvi)

Preliminary tables

(Page xlviii) 1. Estimated population, and number of marriages, births, and deaths registered in England in each of the thirty-nine years 1838-76

(Page xlix) 2. Proportion of persons married, births, and deaths to the population of England, in each of the thirty-nine years 1838-76

(Page l) 3. Marriages in England in each of the thirty-six years 1841-76

(Page li) 4. Proportion per cent. of marriages in England in each of the thirty-six years 1841-76, solemnised according to, and not according to, the rites of the Established Church; also of civil marriages in superintendent registrar's office

(Page lii) 5. Marriages in England in the thirty-six years 1841-1876, civil conditions of persons married; number of minors married; and of persons who signed the marriage register with marks

(Page liii) 6. Marriages in England, and annual rate of persons married per 1000 living, in each quarter of the thirty-nine years 1838-76

(Page liv) 7. Marriages in England. The proportion per cent. of minors of each sex, of males and females who signed the register with marks, and of persons who were widowers and widows, in each of the thirty-six years 1841-76

(Page lv) 8. Persons married to 1000 persons living in the several counties of England during each of the eleven years 1866-76

(Page lvi) 9. Proportional numbers of persons married in the several counties of England during the year 1876; of persons, who signed the register with marks; of persons not of full age; and of re-marriages

(Page lvii) 10. Number of buildings registered for the solemnization of marriages, and on the register on 31st December 1876; classified according to the several Christian denominations by whom they were registered

(Page lviii) 11. Marriages of divorced men and women in each of the sixteen years 1861-76, and the districts in which they were celebrated in 1875

(Page lix) 12. Legitimate and illegitimate births in England in the years 1838-76; proportion of males to females born

(Page lx) 13. Proportion of illegitimate children to every 100 births in the several counties of England in each of the eleven years 1866-76

(Page lxi) 14. Number and annual rate per 1000 living, of births in England during each quarter of the thirty-nine years 1838-76

(Page lxii) 15. Proportional number of births in each quarter to 1000 births in the average quarter of each of the thirty-nine years 1838-76

(Page lxiii) 16. Number and proportion of male and female children born in and out of wedlock in several counties of England during the year 1876

(Page lxiv) 17. Proportion of male and female children born in the several counties of England in each of the eleven years, 1866-76

(Page lxv) 18. Births to 1000 persons living in the several counties of England during each of the eleven years, 1866-76

(Page lxvi) 19. Estimated population and annual rate of mortality of males and of females in England, in each of the thirty-nine years 1838-76; and proportion of deaths of males to those of females

(Page lxvii) 20. Deaths of 57 persons (14 males and 43 females) registered in England and Wales during the year 1876 and returned as aged 100 years and upwards

(Page lxviii) 21. England. Deaths registered at different ages in each of the thirty-nine years 1838-76. Males

(Page lxix) 22. England. Deaths registered at different ages in each of the thirty-nine years 1838-76. Females

(Page lxx) 23. England. Mortality per 1000 at twelve groups of ages in thirty-nine years 1838-76. Males

(Page lxxi) 24. England. Annual rates of mortality per 1000 of males living at twelve groups of ages in each of the thirty-nine years 1838-76

(Page lxxii) 25. England. Mortality per 1000 at twelve groups of ages in thirty-nine years 1838-76. Females

(Page lxxiii) 26. England. Annual rates of mortality per 1000 of females living at twelve groups of ages in each of the thirty-nine years 1838-76

(Page lxxiv) 27. England. Annual rate of mortality per 1000 of persons, males and females, living at twelve groups of age, in each of the registration divisions, during 1876

(Page lxxv) 28. England. Annual rate of mortality per 1000 persons, living at twelve groups of age, in each of the registration counties, during 1876

(Page lxxvi) 29. Number, and annual rate per 1000 persons living, of deaths in England during each quarter of the thirty-nine years 1838-76

(Page lxxvii) 30. Proportional number of deaths in each quarter to 1000 deaths in the average quarter of each of the thirty-nine years 1838-76

(Page lxxviii) 31. Death to 1000 persons living in the several counties of England during each of the eleven years, 1866-76

(Page lxxix) 32. Annual rate of mortality per 1000 in town and county districts of England in each quarter of the eleven years 1866-1876

(Page lxxix) 33. Average annual rate of mortality to 1000 of the population in England and its 11 registration divisions in the two decades 1851-60 and 1861-70, in the year 1876, and in each quarter of that year

(Page lxxx) 34. The average prices of consols of wheat, of meat, of potatoes, and of coal, and also the average number of paupers relieved on the last day of the week, in each of the twenty-five years 1852-76, and in each quarter of the ten years 1867-1876

(Page lxxxi) 35. Mean temperature in Greenwich and annual rates of mortality per 1000 persons living in twenty large English towns of the United Kingdom, in each week of 1876

(Page lxxxii) 36. Annual rate of mortality from all causes and from the principal zymotic diseases in each of the years 1871-76, in fifty town districts of England and Wales

(Page lxxxiii) 37. Population; births and deaths; and rates of mortality, during the year 1876 in fifty large town districts

(Page lxxxiv) 38. Population; persons to an acre; births and deaths; annual birth and death rates; mean temperature and rainfall, in the 52 weeks of the year 1876, in London and twenty-two other large towns of the United Kingdom

(Page lxxxiv) 39. London. Deaths in public institutions in the 52 or 53 weeks of each of the thirteen years 1863-75

(Page lxxxv) 40. London. Population, births, deaths, and rate of mortality in the thirteen years 1864 to 1876

(Page lxxxvi) 41. London. Annual rate of mortality in each of the 37 years 1840-1876

(Page lxxxvii) 42. London. Deaths and meteorology in the thirty-seven years 1840-76

(Pages lxxxviii-lxxxix) 43. Mean annual value of meteorological elements in the year 1876. By James Glaisher, Esq., F. R. S

(Pages xc-xci) 44. Mean annual value of meteorological elements in the year 1876 for different parallels of latitude

(Pages xc-xci) 45. Meteorology of Greenwich in the twenty-eight years 1849-1876

(Pages xcii-xciii) 46. Greenwich meteorological elements for the year 1876

(Pages xcii-xciii) 47. Meteorological table for London, 1876

(Page xciv) 48. Aggregate number of names on the register at the end of each of the forty years 1837-76; also the annual number of searches in the registers at the central office (exclusive of searches in non-parochial registers), and the total amount of fees received for all searches and certificates

(Page xcv) 49. Area, estimated population, and marriages, births, and deaths registered in the United Kingdom, in the year 1876

(Page xcv) 50. Proportion per 1000 of marriages, births, and deaths to the population of the United Kingdom in the year 1876

(Page xcvi) 51. Population, area, births, and deaths in the Islands in the British Seas in the twenty-six years 1851-1876

(Page xcvii) 52. Number and destination of emigrants (including foreigners) in each of the sixty-two years from 1815 to 1876 inclusive

(Page xcviii) 53. Emigration in 1876

(Pages xcviii-xcix) 54. Occupation, sex, and general destination of the emigrants in 1876

(Page c) 55. Average strength of the army at home, in the year 1876

(Page c) 56. Average strength of the English army in each of the sixteen years 1861-76, and its distribution in different parts of the United Kingdom and abroad

(Page c) 57. Average strength, deaths, and annual rate of mortality per 1000 of the army in the United Kingdom in 1876

(Page ci) 58. Average strength of the British army abroad in each of the years 1873-76

(Page ci) 59. Number of deaths in the British army during each of the four years 1873-1876

(Page ci) 60. Annual rate of mortality per 1000 amongst the officers and non-commissioned officers and men in the army abroad, in each of the nineteen years 1858-76

(Page cii) 61. Nationality of the army serving at home and abroad in 1861 and 1871

(Page cii) 62. Deaths of officers and men in the army abroad, and estimated numbers belonging to England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and foreign parts, in each of the nineteen years 1858-1876

(Page ciii) 63. Births and deaths among passengers, British subjects, on board merchant vessels at sea, exclusive of soldiers, marines, and invalided seamen from the royal navy, in each of the twenty-one years 1856-1876

(Page civ) 64. Mortality of merchant seamen at sea, in the twenty-five years 1852-76

(Page cv) 65. Return of the ages, ratings, and causes of death of 4151 seamen reported to the board of trade as having died in the British merchant service in 1876

(Pages cvi-cvii) 66. Population of the United Kingdom estimated to the middle of each of the seventy-eight years 1801-78, exclusive of the population of the Islands in the British Seas, and of the portions of the army, navy, and merchant service abroad

(Page cviii) 67. Estimated population of the United Kingdom, (including Islands in the British Seas) with army, navy, and merchant seamen abroad belonging thereto

(Page cviii) 68. Logarithms of the above population of the United Kingdom

(Page cix) 69. Proportions of persons married, births, and deaths per 1000 of the population in England and Wales, and in Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Hungary and Transylvania, Prussia, German Empire, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain, and Italy

(Page cx) 70. England and Wales. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1876

(Page cx) 71. Denmark (the kingdom properly so called). Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1850 to 1876

(Page cxi) 72. Sweden. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1850 to 1876

(Page cxi) 73. Austria. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1876

(Page cxii) 74. Hungary and Transylvania. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1866 to 1876

(Page cxii) 75. Prussia. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1876

(Page cxiii) 76. German Empire. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1872 to 1876

(Page cxiii) 77. Belgium. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1876

(Page cxiv) 78. The Netherlands. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1876

(Page cxiv) 79. France. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1853 to 1876

(Page cxv) 80. Spain. Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1861 to 1870

(Page cxv) 81. Italy (inclusive of Venetia). Population; number, and proportion per 1000, of persons married, births, and deaths, in each of the years 1863 to 1876

(Page cxvi) 82. Changes in the constitution of the superintendent registrars' districts and registration sub-districts during the year 1876

(222 pages)

Abstracts

(Pages 1-28)

Marriages

(Pages 2-25) Marriages registered in England in each of the registration divisions, counties, and districts; distinguishing those according and those not according to the rites of the Established Church, and the number in each quarter of the year; distinguishing also the previous civil condition of persons married, minority, and signature of the register by marks

(Pages 26-28) Ages of persons married, distinguishing those of bachelors, spinsters, widowers, widows

(Pages 29-84)

Marriages, in the divisions, counties, and districts of England in the year 1876. Births and deaths, in the divisions, counties, districts, and sub-districts of England, in the year 1876

(Pages 30-84)

Marriages, births, and deaths registered, and excess of births over deaths, in each of the divisions, counties, and districts; also births and deaths and excess of births over deaths in each of the sub-districts of England; distinguishing the sexes and illegitimate births throughout

(Pages 30-31) Summary of England and Wales

(Pages 32-40)

Counties and districts

(Page 32) London

(Pages 32-33) South Eastern counties

(Pages 33-34) South Midland counties

(Pages 34-35) Eastern counties

(Pages 35-36) South Western counties

(Pages 36-37) West Midland counties

(Pages 37-38) North Midland counties

(Page 38) North Western counties

(Pages 38-39) Yorkshire

(Page 39) Northern counties

(Page 40) Monmouthshire and Wales

(Pages 41-84)

Counties, districts and sub-districts

(Pages 41-43) London

(Pages 43-49) South Eastern counties

(Pages 49-53) South Midland counties

(Pages 53-57) Eastern counties

(Pages 57-62) South Western counties

(Pages 62-68) West Midland counties

(Pages 68-71) North Midland counties

(Pages 71-74) North Western counties

(Pages 74-78) Yorkshire

(Pages 79-81) Northern counties

(Pages 81-84) Monmouthshire and Wales

(Pages 85-97)

Births, illegitimate births, and deaths, registered in each of the four quarters of the year 1876, in divisions and counties

(Pages 86-89) Births registered in the divisions and counties (distinguishing males and females) in each of the four quarters

(Pages 90-93) Births of children born out of wedlock registered in the divisions and counties (distinguishing males and females) in each of the four quarters

(Pages 94-97) Deaths registered in divisions and counties (distinguishing males and females) in each of the four quarters

(Pages 99-119)

Deaths in public institutions, 1876

(Pages 99-119) Deaths of males and females in public institutions

(Pages 121-143)

Deaths at different ages, 1876, in divisions, counties, and districts, distinguishing males and females

(Pages 122-143) Deaths of males and females at different ages registered in divisions, counties and districts

(Pages 145-221)

Causes of death at different ages in England and London. Causes of death in divisions and counties. Deaths from several causes in divisions, counties, and districts, violent deaths

(Pages 146-155) Causes of death of males and females in England at different periods of life

(Pages 156-161) Causes of death of males and females in London at different periods of life

(Pages 162-185) Causes of death of males and females in England, and in each of the divisions and counties

(Pages 186-197) Deaths from several zymotic and other causes, and inquest cases, in the divisions, counties, and districts of England

(Pages 198-204) Violent deaths in England, distinguishing sex and age

(Pages 205-211) Violent deaths in each of the eleven divisions of England, distinguishing sex

(Pages 212-213) Deaths returned as having occurred from suicide in England, distinguishing sex and age

(Pages 214-215) Deaths returned as having occurred from suicide in each of the eleven divisions of England, distinguishing sex

(Pages 216-217) Deaths returned as having occurred from murder and infanticide in England, distinguishing sex and age

(Page 218) Deaths returned as having occurred from murder and infanticide in each of the eleven divisions of England, distinguishing sex

(Pages 219-220) Deaths returned as having occurred from manslaughter in England, distinguishing sex and age

(Page 221) Deaths returned as having occurred from manslaughter in each of the eleven divisions of England, distinguishing sex

(70 pages)

Appendix

(Page 224) Contents of appendix

(Pages 225-257)

Letter to the registrar-general on the causes of death in England, by William Farr, Esq., M. D., F. R. S

(Pages 225-257)

Causes of death

(Pages 226-239) (1) zymotic diseases

(Page 239) (2) constitutional diseases

(Pages 239-240) (3) local diseases

(Pages 241-251) (4) developmental diseases

(Page 251) (5) violence

(Pages 252-255) Effect of atmospheric vicissitudes on the mortality

(Pages 255-257) Causes of death of children under one year of age

(Pages 258-292)

Tables

(Pages 258-287) Tables (miscellaneous)

(Pages 288-292) Table of causes of death in England in 1876, classified in accordance with the nomenclature drawn up by a committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London

(32 pages)

Indices

(Pages 293-307) Index of districts, sub-districts, and of certain towns, referring to numbers used in the several tables of abstracts

(Pages 308-324) Alphabetical index to report, tables, and appendix

Thirty-ninth annual report of the registrar-general

Table of Contents