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Table XV. 



Exhibiting the proportion which the resident marriages in ABERDEEN, 

 during the years 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840 and 1841, bear to the population 

 of these years ; also the average annual amount of marriages to the mean 

 population. 



Perth. 



It will be found, that of the inhabitants of Perth and suburban district 

 of Kinnoul, the average annual number of males married during the years 

 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840 and 1841 is 140, females 148f ; the total^average 

 annual number of individuals married during these years being 288f . 



The average annual number of males married 

 in Perth and Kinnoul, compared with the 

 number of males as ascertained by the Cen- 

 sus of 1841, is as . , „ 1 to 73*471, or 1*361 per cent. 



The average annual number of females mar- 

 ried, to the female population, is as I to 80*094, or 1*248 per cent. 



Greater proportion of the male than of the 



female population married, by , , 0*113 per cent. 



While there is on an average of these five years 0*113 per cent, more of 

 the male than of the female population of Perth married, it appears that on 

 the average of these years there is 5*66 per cent, more females than males 

 married *. 



The average annual number of individuals married, to the total population, 

 is as 1 to 76*879, or 1*300 per cent. 



* By the Census of 1841, there were 115-55 females to every 100 males in Perth. 



