Cape Reports on Births and Deaths Registration

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Cape Registrar of Births and Deaths
Coverage	1895-1905
Works using it	1

Debates

Debate	Works
Census, race classification and demographic data	1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
Living standards, health and social policy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Simkins and Van Heyningen (1989)	A8-1895, Report of Births and Deaths Registration, January-March 1895	Jan-Mar 1895	Shows high child mortality in the first registration quarter (2,036 of 3,950 deaths under five).
Simkins and Van Heyningen (1989)	G1-1898, Final Report of the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the Year 1896	1896	Source for the 2.1 percent allowance for illegitimate births among whites.
Simkins and Van Heyningen (1989)	Reports on the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1895-1903 (G2-1895, G75-1896, G46-1897, G73-1898, G72-1899, G60-1900, G53-1901, G71-1903, G85-1905, G96-1905)	1895-1903	Gives crude birth and death rates by year and age-specific mortality for 1895-96, from which life tables and registration completeness are derived.