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Series
General Register Office: Returns of Death from Cancer
Catalogue reference: RG 58
What's it about?
RG 58
This series contains returns of deaths from cancer, most of which include the site of the disease. There are also tables by sex and age, and with calculations of the rates per million. Some papers appear to be working tables.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RG 58
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Returns of Death from Cancer
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1851-1940
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains returns of deaths from cancer, most of which include the site of the disease. There are also tables by sex and age, and with calculations of the rates per million. Some papers appear to be working tables.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- General Register Office, 1836-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13 file(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Population
- Disease
- Census
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Registrar General's Weekly and Quarterly Return of Births and Deaths, the Annual Statistical Review of England and Wales and Decennial Supplements contain analyses of medical statistics, but lack the detail of these records.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13383/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
206,531 records
Within the department: RG
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General Register Office: Returns of Death from Cancer
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