Derby Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/PLU) : Deaths by sex

Deaths by sex

Data cube chart.

Year Male Female
31 Dec 1850 464 Show data context 463 Show data context
31 Dec 1851 516 Show data context 520 Show data context
31 Dec 1852 596 Show data context 621 Show data context
31 Dec 1853 581 Show data context 537 Show data context
31 Dec 1854 607 Show data context 581 Show data context
31 Dec 1855 580 Show data context 556 Show data context
31 Dec 1856 474 Show data context 495 Show data context
31 Dec 1857 501 Show data context 576 Show data context
31 Dec 1858 680 Show data context 685 Show data context
31 Dec 1859 600 Show data context 609 Show data context
31 Dec 1860 552 Show data context 540 Show data context
31 Dec 1861 629 Show data context 665 Show data context
31 Dec 1862 547 Show data context 465 Show data context
31 Dec 1863 660 Show data context 646 Show data context
31 Dec 1864 640 Show data context 645 Show data context
31 Dec 1865 594 Show data context 615 Show data context
31 Dec 1866 637 Show data context 617 Show data context
31 Dec 1867 674 Show data context 667 Show data context
31 Dec 1868 810 Show data context 794 Show data context
31 Dec 1869 701 Show data context 745 Show data context
31 Dec 1870 695 Show data context 734 Show data context
31 Dec 1871 671 Show data context 680 Show data context
31 Dec 1872 690 Show data context 621 Show data context
31 Dec 1873 712 Show data context 668 Show data context
31 Dec 1874 763 Show data context 660 Show data context
31 Dec 1875 833 Show data context 772 Show data context
31 Dec 1876 834 Show data context 725 Show data context
31 Dec 1877 769 Show data context 676 Show data context
31 Dec 1878 818 Show data context 715 Show data context
31 Dec 1879 968 Show data context 905 Show data context
31 Dec 1880 768 Show data context 744 Show data context
31 Dec 1881 746 Show data context 718 Show data context
31 Dec 1882 748 Show data context 693 Show data context
31 Dec 1883 715 Show data context 718 Show data context
31 Dec 1884 766 Show data context 726 Show data context
31 Dec 1885 718 Show data context 781 Show data context
31 Dec 1886 762 Show data context 754 Show data context
31 Dec 1887 769 Show data context 712 Show data context
31 Dec 1888 728 Show data context 725 Show data context
31 Dec 1889 726 Show data context 719 Show data context
31 Dec 1890 876 Show data context 846 Show data context
31 Dec 1891 944 Show data context 874 Show data context
31 Dec 1892 907 Show data context 871 Show data context
31 Dec 1893 908 Show data context 877 Show data context
31 Dec 1894 797 Show data context 709 Show data context
31 Dec 1895 865 Show data context 853 Show data context
31 Dec 1896 832 Show data context 804 Show data context
31 Dec 1897 915 Show data context 814 Show data context
31 Dec 1898 927 Show data context 911 Show data context
31 Dec 1899 998 Show data context 857 Show data context
31 Dec 1900 950 Show data context 998 Show data context
31 Dec 1901 864 Show data context 829 Show data context
31 Dec 1902 838 Show data context 826 Show data context
31 Dec 1903 856 Show data context 826 Show data context
31 Dec 1904 1,004 Show data context 917 Show data context
31 Dec 1905 915 Show data context 915 Show data context
31 Dec 1906 963 Show data context 892 Show data context
31 Dec 1907 988 Show data context 888 Show data context
31 Dec 1908 939 Show data context 822 Show data context
31 Dec 1909 907 Show data context 908 Show data context
31 Dec 1910 833 Show data context 741 Show data context
Date Source
1850 - 1910 Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) ,

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nCube definition


The 1939 National Registration tabulated age and gender structure using a greatly simplified nine-way classification of ages. The introduction to the report states that this was to aid the enumerators who were doing much of the analysis before sending the completed forms to the Registrar General. Again to simplify the forms, people were asked to state their year of birth rather than their age. The fractions in the age bands occurred because "In consequence of these procedure restrictions, the number of groups ident...


ified ... is limited to nine in respect of each sex and being calendar year of birth groups, they do not correspond with integral years of age owing to the fact that the enumeration took place at the end of the third quarter of 1939."

The data are for the civilian population only. At this date, the armed services were almost all male, and under 45. An estimated 1,010,000 were in the services in Great Britain, of whom 900,000 were in England and Wales.


How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Derby Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/PLU) through time | Historical Statistics on Life & Death | Deaths by sex, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10030298/cube/DEATH_SEX

Date accessed: 06th June 2026