XIII. PERIODICAL RETURNS.

REGISTRATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

No. I.-ENGLAND AND WALES.

MARRIAGES-TO 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1891.

BIRTHS AND DEATHS-To 31ST DECEMBER, 1891.

A.-Serial Table of MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, and DEATHS, returned in the
Years 1891-85, and in the QUARTERS of those Years.
Calendar YEARS, 1891-85:—Numbers.

'91.

Marriages No.

Births........,,

Deaths

'86.

'85.

'90. '89. '88. '87. 223,028 213,865 203,821 200,518 196,071 197,745 913,836 869,937 885,944 879,868 886,331 903,760 894,270 587,666 562,248 518,353 510,971 530,758 537,276 522,750

March........ No. 49,057 40,905

June

41,006 52,543 59,180 55,741 51,684 52,637 September 58,553 57,143 53,820 51,603 49,746

40,276 38,836

238,825 220,060 227,641 224,112 226,338 231,087 222,142 224,089 220,769 220,341 214,651 222,835 224,332 218,558 220,969 203,468 217,666 217,339 217,996 218,011 221,615

March........ No. 158,099 165,318 139,344 149,976 143,123 156,653 147,721

171,555 128,625 124,434 124,918 128,488 125,359 132,340 116,469 122,515 122,362 107,881 125,232 125,366 114,308

141,543 145,790 132,213 128,196 133,915 129,898 128,381

Annual Rates of MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, and DEATHS, per 1,000 PERSONS LIVING in the Years 1891-85, and in the QUARTERS of those Years.

Calendar YEARS, 1891-85:-General Ratios.

Births

Deaths........

31.4
3275 30.2 31.1 31.2 31.9
20.2 19°1 19.5 18.2 18.1 19.1 19.5

32.8

32.9

19.2

B.-Comparative Table of CONSOLS, PROVISIONS, COAL and PAUPERISM in each QUARTER of 1889-90-91.

Average Prices of

MEAT per Pound
at the Metropolitan

Meat Market
(by the Carcase),
with the Mean Prices.

of

Market

per

and

C.-Special Average Death-Rate Table:-ANNUAL RATE of MORTALITY per 1,000 in Town and COUNTRY DISTRICTS of ENGLAND in each Quarter of the Years 1889-91.

D.-Special Town Table:-POPULATION; BIRTH-RATE and DEATH-RATE in each Quarter of 1891, in TWENTY-EIGHT Large Towns.

Bradford

216,938 25.9

Leeds....

19'5 369,099 34.1 24 2

Sheffield

325,304 35.3 22.2

Hull

31.1 30°7
28.0 16.7 26.5
36.1 28.3
32.9 18.6
38.3 34°0 34.8
200,934 32.6 19°2 35.2 26.6 34.2

19°2

33.0 20 ̊4

18.7

36.7 19.8

18.0

33.4 18.3

Sunderland

131,302 39.2 22.6 38.9

Newcastle

187,502 41.7 26.1 37.3

20°3 33.9

28.8

Cardiff

130,283 39.8 2497 36.6

16.6 37.3 26.0

261,970 27.1 21.8 30.3 21.6 26.3 16.1 27.5 25 ̊5
567,143 38.8 31°2 38.0 25.8 33.3 19'1 32.4 27.0
347,312 29.5 30'1
30.3 2394 27.9 21.6 24.6 29.8

*For the purpose of this table, London includes the Strand Union workhouse at Edmonton, the Holborn Union workhouse at Mitcham, and the metropolitan hospitals and asylums situated outside Registration London.

E.-Divisional Table:-MARRIAGES in the Year ending 30th September; and BIRTHS and DEATHS in the Year ending 31st December, 1891, as Registered Quarterly.

BIRTHS in each Quarter of 1891 ending DEATHS in each Quarter of 1891 ending

ENGLD. & WALES....Totals 229,953 238,825 224,089 220,969 158,099 171,555 116,469 | 141,543

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

I. London

35,727 33,498 32,222 32,556 24,833 24,605 18,069

21,252

II. South-Eastern

III. South Midland........
IV. Eastern

г. South-Western VI. West Midland

VII. North Midland..

14,220 15,090

20,003 20,063 19,428 18,946 13,901 12,830 9,333
13,756 | 14,654 13,367 13,222 9,080 8,872 6,190
12,245 12,922 11,936 11,974 7,923
7,679 5,612
13,435 13,935 13,180 12,747 10,658 8,953
26,428 27,599 25,528 25,412 17,480 18,881
13,940 13,843 8,829 11,462

11,620

7,423

6,507

VIII. North-Western.
IX. Yorkshire

X. Northern

38,175 40,451 37,942 37,388 28,381 33,092 21,793
24,784 27,229 25,151 24,780 17,420 23,600 | 13,343
16,489 17,665 16,741 15,878 9,673 10,297

XI. Monmthsh. & Wales 14,691 15,719 14,654 14,223

9,921 11,284

7xn 1890