114 Mr. Watt on tfte Vital Statistics of five large Towns of Scotland, 



Fa. 



Brought up, 264 



Shale and Ironstone Nodules, . 4 



Second Caumy Limestone, . 



Shale, 1 



First Raks Gill Band Ironstone, 



Shale, 



Two-bands Ironstone, . . 



Shale, 



Ironstone, .... 



Shale, 



Ironstone, .... 



Shale, 



Ironstone, .... 



Shale, 



Ironstone, .... 



Shale, 



Ironstone, . . . . 



Hard Shale 



Ft In. 



o 

 

 

 6 

 6 

 3 6 



10 



1 9 

 

 2 

 

 2 

 



6 



1^ 

 3 

 1.^ 

 9 



3 10 

 5 



4 8 

 5 

 2 



Forward, 275 



Fa. Ft In. 



Brought up, 

 Ironstone, . . . , 



Sulphureous Shale, 

 Ironstone, . . . , 



Shale and Ironstone balls. 

 Ironstone, . . . , 



Shale with Shells, 

 Foul-band Limestone, 

 Shale and Sandstone, 

 Third Caumy Limestone, . 

 Shale, Sandstone, and Ironstone 



balls, 



Main Lime, . . . , 



Shale, Sandstone, and Limestone, 

 Sandstone and Shale, 



275 







, 



1 7 

 9 

 4 11 

 5 







8 



6 



4 



3 6 



18 



2 6 



3 



4 6 



26 



30 



Fathoms, 357 8 

 Limestone of good quality, thick- 

 ness not known. 

 The Old Red Sandstone. 



Mr. Joliu Alston made some observations on the noxious eflfects of 

 smoke in the atmosphere. 



Dr. Stenhouse stated that he had detected Thein in Paraguay tea, 

 and that he had succeeded in obtaining this principle from tea and 

 coffee by sublimation in Mohr's apparatus. 



1st Marchy 1843, — The President in the Chair. 

 The following communication was read : — 



XXXII. — On the Vital Statistics of Jive large Towns of Scotland. 

 By Alexander Watt, Esq., City Statist, Glasgow. 



It has long been matter of regret that the Registers of Marriages, 

 Births, and Deaths, of Scotland, should have been allowed to remain 

 in such a defective state, as to prevent the possibility of arriving at a 

 correct knowledge of the Vital Statistics of the country ; — and that, 

 though in certain towns considerable attention has been paid to 

 recording the deaths, no uniform plan has been adopted for the whole ; 

 — nor has any attempt been made, till lately, to arrange such facts as 

 may be obtained from them, on an uniform systematic plan, so as to 

 enable us to come to satisfactory conclusions, with regard to the com- 

 parative value of human life, in different localities ; — or of the moral 

 and physical causes, which operate in producing those various eflfects 

 observable in the sanatory condition of different districts of town and 

 country, in connection with atmospheric influence, which is found to 

 exercise a powerful effect on the human frame. 



