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Births— Males, 3,527 Females, 3,341 Excess of Males, 18C 



Males under 5 years, 15,422 J4,fi55 ... of Males, 567 



10 years, 28,549 27,435 ... of Males, 1,114 



15 years, 39,040 38,155 ... of Males, 885 



20 years, 47,529 50,411 ... of Females, 2,882 



30 years, 62,706 73,419 ... of Females, 10,713 



Entire Population, 93,724 ...... 108,702 ... ofFemales, 14,978 



Burials—Males, 2,701 2,484 ... ofMales, 217 



Addenda for 1 83 1 . — Description of Householders. Married 

 men, 30,032. Widowers, 1790. Bachelors, 1437. Male house- 

 holders, 33,259. Widows, 6824. Spinsters, 1882. Female 

 houstholders, 8706. Total families, 41,965. — Country to zohich 

 the Population belongs. Scotch, 163,600. English, 291 9. , Irish, 

 35,554, Foreigners, 353. Total, 202,426.— i?£'/;^vo« of the 

 Popidat'ion. Established, 104,162. Dissenters, Episcopalians, 

 and Jews, 71,299. Roman Catholics, 26,965. Total, 202,426. 

 — Number of Paujjers, and Expense of Maintaining them. 

 The number of paupers in the city and suburbs being 5006, and 

 the population 202,426, there is one pauper for every 40-//g. 

 The number of paupers being 5006, and the sum expended for 

 their maintenance or relief L. 17,281 : 18 : 0^, shews the cost 

 of each pauper to be L. 3 : 9 : 0^. If the sum for the relief of 

 paupers were equally paid by the whole non-recipient popula- 

 tion, the proportion to each would be one shilling and ninepence 

 and a small fraction. The sum of L. 1 7,281 : 18 : 0^ includes 

 the entire expenditure of the out and in-door paupers, surgeons' 

 salaries, medicines, clothing and educating children, maintaining 

 lunatics, funeral charges, &c. The cost of each pauper in St 

 John's Farish is L. 3 : 8 : \0\. The poor in that parish are 

 maintained or relieved on the parochial system introduced by Dr 

 Chalmers in 1820, i. e. by the Kirk-Session from its own resour- 

 ces, without receiving any part of the general assessment for the 

 poor, although the inhabitants of St John's Parish are assessed 

 for the maintenance of the poor generally, in the same mannev 

 as other citizens. 



