Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly — 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 Cornwall, which we graph and tabulate here:

Available datasets	Period covered	Variables (number of categories)
Infant Deaths	1861 to 1971	Infant Deaths (4)
Total Births	1861 to 1971	Total Live Births (1)
Total Deaths	1861 to 1971	Total Deaths (3)

Read more about how we hold statistics here.