West London RegD/PLU — Current theme: Life & Death

This theme covers births, marriages and deaths, including changing causes of death. Unlike most of our themes, it is based not on the Census but on the closely related system for registering births, marriages and deaths, established in 1837.

In this first version of the system, the main emphasis is on infant mortality, the number of children dying before their first birthday as a proportion of all births.

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We hold these detailed statistics for London, which we graph and tabulate here:

Available datasets	Period covered	Variables (number of categories)
Births by legitimacy	1850 to 1869	Legitimacy (2)
Births by legitimacy & sex	1850 to 1869	Legitimacy (2) Sex (2)
Births by sex	1850 to 1869	Sex (2)
Deaths by sex	1850 to 1869	Sex (2)
Decennial Cause of Death by Age	1851 to 1870	Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 75 (11) Cause of Death (Simplified) (14)
Decennial Cause of Death by Age for under 5s	1851 to 1870	Age between birth & 5 in three bands (3) Cause of Death (Simplified) (14)
Decennial Cause of Death by Age & Sex	1861 to 1870	Sex (2) Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 85 (12) Cause of Death (RG 1860s DS definition) (25)
Decennial Cause of Death by Age & Sex	1851 to 1860	Sex (2) Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 85 (12) Cause of Death (RG 1850s DS definition) (23)
Decennial Cause of Death by Age & Sex for under 5s	1861 to 1870	Sex (2) Age in single years between birth & 5 (5) Cause of Death (RG 1860s DS definition) (25)
Decennial Cause of Death by Age & Sex for under 5s	1851 to 1860	Sex (2) Age in single years between birth & 5 (5) Cause of Death (RG 1850s DS definition) (23)
Total Births	1850 to 1869	Total Live Births (1)
Total Deaths	1850 to 1869	Total Deaths (3)

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