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A Comparative View of the State of Crime in London, Dublin, and 
Glasgow. By Captain Mituer. 
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London, within the Metropolitan . 
Police DISHICE: Ciisecce ocsce cane } 1839/1,600,000) 65,965 | 1 in.243) 4500 | 355 
Dublin, within the Metropolitan . 5 
Police District............. z Tania | 1839} 300,000) 45,682 |1in 7 | 1170 | 256 
Liverpool and Suburbs .....-...es+00 1838] 265,000) 16,689 | 1 in 16 600 | 442 
> Stiles the City ae 1839] 175,900] 7,687 |1 in 223| 223 | 784 
On the comparative Vital Statistics of Edinburgh and Glasgow. 
By Mr. Watt. 
The proportion of marriages to the population in Edinburgh and 
Leith is as 1 to 144°449, or 0°692 per cent. In Glasgow the propor- 
tion is as 1 to 124°942, or 0°800 per cent. The number of deaths 
under twenty years of age in Edinburgh, in 1839, was 43-060 per cent. 
of the whole number of deaths; while in Glasgow the proportion was 
62-312 per cent. In Edinburgh the proportion of deaths to the popu- 
lation was as 1 to 45°435, or 2°200 per cent.; in Glasgow the propor- 
tion was as 1 to 36°146, or more than 2°766 per cent. The deaths of 
children under five years of age are, in Edinburgh, | to 141°598 of 
the population; in Glasgow they amount to 1 in 72°014: in Edin- 
burgh they are less than one-third of the whole number of deaths, in 
Glasgow more than one-half. From the imperfect state in which the 
registers of births are kept in Scotland, Mr. Watt declared that no re- 
liance could be placed on the existing data of comparison; and the 
same remark, though in a less degree, extends to the registration of 
the causes of death, as data for the statistics of disease. 
On the Vital Statistics of Glasgow. By Dr. Cowan. 
Dr. Cowan exhibited a variety of tables, illustrative of the Meteoro- 
logy and Statistics of Glasgow. He also exhibited a map of Glasgow, 
coloured, to show the state of the districts in relation to fever. From 
the table of marriages, it appeared that their proportion to the popula- 
tion, though always high, is fluctuating, depending on the state of trade 
and the prices of provisions. The extremes are to be found in 1825, 
remarkable for prosperity, when they amounted to 1] in 83°98 ; and in 
