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population married, there is no less than 2-96 per cent, more males 

 than females married. There being 110*41 females for every 100 

 males residing in Glasgow, and 117*37 females to everj 100 males in 

 Dundee, bj the census of 1841. In Aberdeen, there is 0*352 per cent 

 more of the male than of tlie female population married, while the 

 amount of females married is 0*30 per cent greater than that of the 

 males ; there being 128*59 females in Aberdeen to every 100 males, 

 bj the census of 1841. 



These results are all brought out on the average of those years 

 stated in the foregoing Table, No. I. In comparing the proportions in 

 this Table, it may be as well to keep in view, that the proportion of 

 marriages for the whole of England and Wales, amounts to 0*785 per 

 cent of the population.* 



BIRTHS. 



As the registers of births in Scotland are so very defective as to be 

 of no use in enabling us to arrive at a knowledge of the Vital Statistics, 

 either of town or country,! it seems unnecessary here to give any 

 abstract of the returns obtained from them, farther than to state, that 

 the mean annual proportion of births recorded in the Registers of 

 births for Edinburgh and Leith is 0*992 per cent of the population ; 

 for Glasgow 1*160 per cent; for Aberdeen 1*311 per cent. ; for Perth 

 1*704 per cent; and for Dundee 1*497 per cent. ; while it appears from 

 the Fourth Annual Report of the Registrar General, the mean annual 

 proportion of births for England and Wales is 3*174 per cent 



DEATHS. 



As it is of the greatest importance that the returns from the 

 Registers of deaths should be constructed on an uniform plan, the 

 results obtained for the different towns in Scotland are based on the 

 same principles as those for the Mortality Bills of Glasgow, which I 

 have drawn up for the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of that 

 city. The classification of the diseases in the tables, the arrangement 



* See Fonrth Annual Report of the Registrar General. 



f The only register of births, deaths, and marriages in the country parishes of Scotland, 

 is that kept by the Session Clerk of the Established Church, in -which few of the Dis- 

 senters register. The following abstract, supplied by the Rev. Dr. James Thomson, 

 exhibits the number of births registered for five years, in the parish of Eccles, Berwick- 

 shire, possessing a population of 1930, and 480 church communicants, and where several 

 families of dissenters reside, and shows that few of the latter register:— 



DISSRSTERS. CHURCHMEir. 



1838, 1 16 



1839, 4 21 



1840, 1 26 



1841, 2 28 



1842, 5 24 



Mean for 5 years, . . 26 • 23 



