I've just been comparing the 1884 Dec Deaths district page range given on the FreeBMD website with my approximate observed values from roughly 12,000 entries. I found that the districts listed below were missing. I was even more surprised to find that districts with numerous entries such as Marylebone, Bristol, Ecclesall B. and York were omitted whilst ones with very few entries such as Stratton and Camelford were listed. The previous 1884 quarters didn't seem to suffer from the omissions. District Vol Observed page range --------------------------------------------- Marylebone 1a 359-437 Buckingham 3a 411-417 Towcester 3b 14-14 Wangford 4a 529-539 Kingsbridge 5b 133-143 Bristol 6a 3-38 Hereford 6a 326-343 Madeley 6a 422-435 Atcham 6a 437-470 Cheadle 6b 203-216 Alcester 6d 388-397 Wortley 9c 169-203 Ecclesall B. 9c 205-266 York 9d 1-53 Llandilofawr 11a 515-527 Brecknock 11b 63-69 NB Monospaced font needed for table.

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:51:46 +0100, you wrote: >I've just been comparing the 1884 Dec Deaths district page range >given on the FreeBMD website with my approximate observed values from >roughly 12,000 entries. > >I found that the districts listed below were missing. I was even more >surprised to find that districts with numerous entries such as >Marylebone, Bristol, Ecclesall B. and York were omitted whilst ones >with very few entries such as Stratton and Camelford were listed. The >previous 1884 quarters didn't seem to suffer from the omissions. We'll have a look at the code. -- Dave Mayall