Re: Birth anomalies in the Nineteenth century

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:04:25 -0000, eve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On 29 Jan 2008 at 15:32, David J wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:07:34 +0000, Ian Goddard
<goddai01@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David J wrote:
Looking at the FreeBMD database statistics for total Births
recorded in England during the Nineteenth century, a few years
appear with a number approximately twice that of the adjacent
years.

An example is 1850: 604,000, 1851: 1212,000, 1852: 703,000

Are these registrations, which do not necessarily match the actual numbers of
births?.
The census of 1851 was going to catch a lot of people, so maybe they registered
the child thinking it was inevitable anyway.


No Eve, simply my misunderstanding of the numbers described as 'Total'

David

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