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Statistics of Births, Deaths and Marriages ON July 8, 1839, The Times said: “We have received the first annual report of the Registrar- General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, in England, presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty.” From the annual abstracts up to June 30, 1838, The Times quoted the following figures: Total number of persons married, according to the rates of the established church 107,201; not according to the rites of the established church 111,481. Total of births registered 390,712; total number of deaths registered 335,956. Discussing one or two features of the returns The Times said: "A very marked diversity also appears in the proportion of deaths of infants in different parts of the country. In the mining districts of Staffordshire and Shropshire, in Leeds and its suburbs, and in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and the lowest parts of Lincolnshire, the deaths of infants under one year have been more than 270 out of 1000 deaths at all ages; while in the northern counties of England, in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and Devonshire, in Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, and in Wales, the deaths at that age, out of 1000 of all ages, scarcely exceeds 180."
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 144, 87 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144087a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144087a0