Population. Comparative account of the population of Great Britain in the years 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831; with the annual value of real property in the year 1815: also a statement of progress in the inquiry regarding the occupations of families and persons, and the duration of life. As required by the Population act of 1830 / [Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed, 19 October 1831.

  • Great Britain. Census Office.
Date:
[1831]
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Credit: Population. Comparative account of the population of Great Britain in the years 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831; with the annual value of real property in the year 1815: also a statement of progress in the inquiry regarding the occupations of families and persons, and the duration of life. As required by the Population act of 1830 / [Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed, 19 October 1831. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    u of explanation from the proportion of Males excluded from enumeration as being British Seamen, belonging to Registered Vessels (a class of Men amounting to 130,000), or migra¬ tory foreign Seamen. Whether the same addition may be made to the general Population of Ports (where, be it observed, the Burials of Males equal or exceed the Burials of Females) as has been made to that of the Metropolis, is left for consideration; in the Naval Arsenals of Plymouth and Portsmouth, the respective Garrisons and Sailors serving in the Royal Navy, as well as those in Registered Shipping, cannot but cause a prepon¬ derance of Male Population. An equality in the numbers of the two Sexes would assign 85,000 Inhabitants to Plymouth and 70,000 to Portsmouth. The increased duration of life in England is a phenomenon which has attracted more notice abroad than at home, (11) but seems now to be generally admitted by those who have studied the subject with the best means of arriving at a well-founded conviction. (12) From the Parish-Register Returns of the Decennary years of the greater part of the last Century (1700-1780) which vary from one death in 31 to one death in 42, is deduced as an average rate TABLE of the Annual Proportion of Baptisms, Burials and Marriages, to the Population in the Five Years preceding the several Enumerations of COUNTY OF 179 n 1 8 0 0. 180 6 1 810. 181 6 1 8 2 0. 182 6 1 8 3 0. Bap¬ tisms. Burials. Mar¬ riages. Bap¬ tisms. Burials. Mar¬ riages. Bap¬ tisms. Burials. Mar¬ riages. Bap¬ tisms. Burials. Mar¬ riages. BEDFORD 35 50 113 34 51 131 35 56 124 37 57 129 Berks - - 33 51 148 33 53 144 33 55 140 33 52 149 Bucks - 37 50 129 33 51 129 35 55 139 3d 55 144 Cambridge - - 33 45 118 3i 44 130 31 5d 117 32 46 124 Chester - ■ - 39 5i 130 39 51 132 35 52 127 43 57 142 Cornwall - - 33 58 120 32 62 142 33 70 146 34 65 147 Cumberland - - ’ - 38 53 145 35 53 132 34 55 152 36 56 168 Derby - - 35 52 138 34 61 139 36 61 146 36 56 134 Devon - - - 36 49 109 33 52 113 34 60 132 35 60 134 Dorset - - - 41 62 142 35 56 139 36 64 144 35 58 138 Durham - v - 38 42 116 34 50 133 34 54 134 35 54 148 Essex - - 35 44 125 I 34 46 130 3d 60 146 37 54 154 Gloucester - - - 37 55 127 36 65 120 3d 62 in 35 62 116 Hereford - - 40 65 183 3d 61 144 36 60 171 37 . 56 149 Hertford - - 38 54 161 34 58 168 35 58 171 36 59 127 Huntingdon - - - 33 46 104 35 50 134 35 63 127 36 47 131 Kent - - 30 41 116 29 38 115 31 5i 130 34 49 141 Lancaster - - 34 47 114 31 5i 115 37 55 116 38 57 117 Leicester - - 35 49 130 38 59 134 36 59 127 38 56 127 Lincoln - - - 32 49 117 3i 50 125 31 60 134 31 5i 135 Middlesex - - 39 37 95 40 46 94 41 51 101 40 45 102 Monmouth - - - 56 72 168 50 70 •145 53 72 151 59 83 131 Norfolk • 02 0 47 126 3i 50 134 32 59 130 33 54 142 This Table differs from preceding calculations in adverting to the Burials of the last Five Years of each period, viz. 1796-1800; 1806-1810; 1816-1820; 1826-1830; not only for the sake of comparing the number of Burials more nearly with the Population ascertained at the end of such quinquennial periods, but as leaving the intermediate periods of Fi\e \eais open to a similar or supplementary scrutiny, if deemed expedient hereafter. The comparative duration of life in each County at various periods is the indisputable result ___ °f ('ll) See Evidence before the Population Bill Committee, printed 26 May 1830.