MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, and DEATHS; their Numbers and Proportions to the Population, during the YEAR 1867 MARRIAGES in 1867. Number celebrated according and not according to BIRTHS in 1867. Birth-rate; Sex; Seasons; Children born in and DEATHS in 1867. Death-rate, Seasons, and Meteorology; Sex; Death- rate in town, country, and in counties; Ages UNITED KINGDOM: Population, Marriages, Births, and Deaths FOREIGN STATES: FRANCE, AUSTRIA, ITALY, and SPAIN; Population, PROGRESS OF REGISTRATION. Aggregate Number of NAMES ON THE TITLES of REGISTERS and RECORDS deposited in the GENERAL SUMMARY of the QUARTERLY REPORTS, 1867 :- FIRST QUARTER, ending March 31st SECOND QUARTER, ending June 30th THIRD QUARTER, ending September 30th LONDON: Annual Rate of Mortality, 1840-67, in five groups of Dis- ANNUAL RATE of MORTALITY in THIRTEEN LARGE TOWNS of the UNITED KINGDOM in each week of 1867 EMIGRATION FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM NUMBER, AGES, RATINGS, and CAUSES OF DEATH of MERCHANT SEAMEN POPULATION, and LOGARITHMS of the POPULATION of the UNITED KINGDOM, estimated to the middle of the Years 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, 1841, 1851, 1861, 1866, 1867, 1868, and 1869, including the Army, Navy, and Merchant Seamen abroad and belonging thereto ESTIMATED POPULATION of the UNITED KINGDOM at Home, distinguishing ENGLAND and WALES, SCOTLAND and IRELAND, in each of the Years MARRIAGES Registered in England in each of the Divisions, Counties, and Districts in 1867; distinguishing those according and those not according to the Rites of the Established Church; and distinguishing also Persons married according to their conjugal Condition, Minority, and Signature of the Register by marks MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, and DEATHS Registered in each of the Divisions, Counties, and Districts in 1867; also BIRTHS and DEATHS and EXCESS of BIRTHS Over DEATHS in each of the Sub-districts of England; distinguishing the Sexes and Illegitimate Births DEATHS in 1867 in the principal Public Institutions in London BIRTHS of Children born out of Wedlock Registered in the DIVISIONS and COUNTIES (distinguishing Males and Females) in each of the DEATHS Registered in each of the Four Quarters of 1867 (distinguishing DEATHS of Males and Females at different AGES Registered in 1867 CAUSES of DEATH of Males and Females in ENGLAND, at different SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE of CAUSES of DEATH of Males and Females, in England at different Periods of Life, in 1867 CAUSES of DEATH of Males and Females in LONDON, at different 83-84 CAUSES of DEATH of Males and Females in ENGLAND, and in each of the DIVISIONS and COUNTIES, in 1867 . DEATHS from SEVERAL ZYMOTIC and OTHER CAUSES in 1867, in the VIOLENT DEATHS in ENGLAND in the Five Years 1863-67, distinguishing VIOLENT DEATHS in each of the ELEVEN DIVISIONS of ENGLAND in the DEATHS returned as having occurred from SUICIDE in ENGLAND in the DEATHS returned as having occurred from MANSLAUGHTER in ENGLAND in APPENDIX. INDEX of DISTRICTS, SUB-DISTRICTS, and of certain Towns, referring by Numbers to the several TABLES of ABSTRACTS ALPHABETICAL INDEX to REPORT, TABLES, and APPENDIX REPORT ΤΟ The Right Honourable HENRY AUSTIN BRUCE, M.P., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, &c. &c. &c. SIR, General Register Office, Somerset House, 31st March 1869. I HAVE the honour to submit to you my Annual Report for the year 1867. The population is estimated to have reached 21,429,508 in the middle of the year 1867, being an increase of 219,488 over that of the previous year; 10,365,688 of the total number living are males and 11,063,820 are females. The natural increase of population as represented by the excess of births over deaths is 297,276 or 814 per day, a number much above the average. 195,953 emigrants left the shores of the United Kingdom at the rate of 537 daily; of these 57,866 were of English origin, 13,317 of Scotch, TABLE 1.-Estimated Population, with the Number of Marriages, Births, and Deaths registered in England, in each Year from 1838 to 1867. *The Population of each of the years since 1851 is deduced from the ascertained rate of increase observed in the twenty years, 1841-61; and an allowance is made for the decrease in the rate during the latter ten years. On another hypothesis the numbers would differ slightly from the estimate here given, but as the rates of births, deaths, and marriages have been calculated on these numbers it is not considered advisable to give any other estimate of Population. 92,204 of Irish, 32,566 were foreigners: 7,778 persons whose birth-places were not distinguished are proportionally distributed in this statement. The United States attracted 159,275 of the emigrants, while 15,503 went to the British North American colonies, the unusually small number of 14,466 to the Australian colonies, and 6,709 to various other places; the total shows a large reduction on the numbers emigrating in the four preceding years. Details showing the occupations, sex, and ages of the emigrants are given in tables at pages lix-lxi. Emigration is considerably promoted by the sums annually remitted by residents in North America, either in the form of prepaid passage orders or in cash, to their friends in the United Kingdom. In the year 1867 the amount thus remitted was 543,029l.; this return is necessarily imperfect, and was obtained by the Emigration Commissioners through the courtesy of bankers, merchants, and shipowners through whom the remittances are made. The number of persons married in England and Wales was 358,308; 768,349 children were born alive and registered; 471,073 persons died during the year; and the national registers have thus received an addition of one million five hundred and ninety-seven thousand seven hundred and thirty names, raising the aggregate number since the commencement of registration in 1837 to forty millions four hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-two. The meteorology of the year presents some remarkable features which are described in the summary of the quarterly reports, pp. xxxiv-lii; the mean temperature of the air was 48° 6, or o°6 below the average; 28 4 inches of rain fell, being 4.2 inches above the average. The price of wheat continued to rise; it was 6os. 7d. per quarter in the first three months, 63s. 11d. in the next three months, 65s. 4d. in the three following months, and 67s. 1 Id. in the last quarter, the average price during the year being 64s. 5d. per quarter, compared with 49s. 11d. TABLE 2.-Proportion of Marriages, Births, and Deaths to the Population of England, in each Year from 1838 to 1867. NOTE.-The Table may be read thus:-In the year 1838 to every 100,000 persons living there were 771 marriages or 1542 persons married, 3029 births, 2238 deaths; the number of persons living to every marriage, persons married, birth or death, was 130, 65, 33, and 45 respectively. A correction, for increase of population has been made in calculating the above results; no correction, however, has been made for leap years. |