Volume 1

Census of Great Britain, 1851 : population tables, 2 Ages, civil condition, occupations, and birth-place of the people : with the numbers and ages of the blind, the deaf-and-dumb, and the inmates of workhouses, prisons, lunatic asylums, and hospitals.

  • Great Britain. General Register Office.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Census of Great Britain, 1851 : population tables, 2 Ages, civil condition, occupations, and birth-place of the people : with the numbers and ages of the blind, the deaf-and-dumb, and the inmates of workhouses, prisons, lunatic asylums, and hospitals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Page Increase in the Number of Marriages after the passing of the Marriage Act of 1753, and at subsequent Periods .... Improvement in the Manners and Morals of the People, and Changes in Public Opinion ... . . . i^jj Court of George III. Private Virtues of the Queen. Pure and simple Life of the Royal Family lyiij Reform of the Family as a social Institution .... iy{{] Education of Families. Lord Chatham and his Family ... jjx Charles Fox and the Repeal of the Marriage Act - - - Ix Reflux of Manners. Purity of English Literature. Immediate Connexion of Manners and Population - - - - - Ix Deplorable Depression of the English Population down to 1741-1751. Mer- cenaries subsidized to defend the Country - ... j^i Effects of the Increase of Population after 1751. Emigration to British Colonies stimulated .... . - Ixi Increase of Iron Manufactures and the Progress of Agriculture, Canals and Roads made and improved - - - - Ixi—Ixii The large Land Proprietors in 1670 and 1770 - - . . ixH Manufactures. New Machines, the great Industrial Leaders of the Period - ..... 2xii Railroads. Variety of Employments of the Population of Great Britain shown by the Abstracts of Occupations ... Ixii-lxiii Extraordinary Progress of the Country by simple Means resulting from the Progress of the Sciences, of Industry, and of the moral and social Condition of the Population - - - . . . ixiii xiii. The Principle of Population. Criticism of the Policy of Progress - .... Ixiii-lxiv Theory and Reasonings of Malthus - - - - - Ixiv Sir James Steuart's Analysis of Subsistence ... Jxv Subsistence varies in Amount as the Character of the Producers varies - Ixv Real Limits of the Population. Population not redundant - - Ixvi The Idle, Unskilful, and Criminal - - - ... ixvi The Geometrical and Arithmetical Progressions - - - Ixvi Possible Consequences that might have resulted from the Theory of Malthus ; happier Consequences of the Policy actually pursued - Ixvii Tables of Baptisms, Burials, 1700-1840; and of Population, 1701-1851 - Ixviii The following Tables have reference to the Civil or Conjugal Condition of the People, APPENDIX TO REPOET.—TABULAR RESULTS. Page Table 12.—Number of Unmakeied, Married, and Widowed Persons at Six Periods of Age in Great Britain in 1851 - -- -- -- . . clxv Table 13.—Proportion of Unmarried, Married, and Widowed Persons at Six Periods of Age to 100 Males and to 100 Females living at those Ages in Great Britain - - - clxv Table 14.—Proportion of Unmarried, Married, and Widowed Persons of each Sex to every 1,000 Males and every 1,000 Females at 14 Periods of Age in the Divisions of England and Wales clxvi-clxvii Table 15.—Proportions of each Sex -who are Single, Married, and Widowed to 100 Men and to 100 Women of the Age of 20 and upwards in Great Britain and in each Division and CotTNTT - clxviii-clxix Table 16 Proportions of Spinsters, Wives, and Widows aged 20 and under 40, to every 100 Women living of the same Ages in Great Britain and in each Division and County - clxx Table 17.—Number of Wives aged 20 and under 40, and the Number and Ages of their Husbands, in the Divisions of England and Scotland - . . - . . clxxi APPENDIX TO REPORT.—SUMMARY TABLES. Table VI.—Number and Ages of Unmarried, Married, and Widowed Persons in Great Britain and the Islands of the British Seas in 1851 Table Vll.—Unmarried Persons at different Ages in each Division and County of England Table VIII.—Married Persons at different Ages in each Division and County of England Table IX.—Widowed Persons at different Ages in each Division and County of Engi-and and Wales ........... Table X.—Unmarried Persons at dilFerent Ages in each County of Scotland ... Table XI.—Unmarried Persons at different Ages in the Islands in the British Seas Table XIT.—Married Persons at different Ages in each County of Scotland Table XHI.—Married Persons at different Ages in the Islands in the British Seas Table XIV.—Widowed Persons at different Ages in each County of Scotland - . - Table XV.—Widowed Persons at different Ages in the Islands in the British Seas Tables XVI-XIX.—Ages of Husbands and Wives, distinguishing those that were resident with and those that were absent from each other in Great Britain, England and Wales, Scotland, and the Islands in the British Seas - ...... Tables XX-XXIH.—Civil Condition of Males and Females aged 20 and upwards in Great Britain and the Islands in the British Seas and in each Division and County of England, Wales, and Scotland - Note.—More detailed Tables relating to the Civil or Conjugal Condition of the People will be found in each of the Divisional Sections of the present Report, immediately following the Tables of the Ages of Males and Females. cci ccii-cciii cciv-cev ccvi- ccviii ccviii- ccx- ccx- ccxii- ccxii ccvii -ccix -ccix ccxi ccxi ■ccxiii •ccxiii ccxiv-ecxv ccxvi-ccxvu