700 



NEW YORK NIMMO. 



Marriagn during the precedicg }tt 1.990 

 Birihj during Uie preceding yew, Mile* 4,52-i 



1 to 136 of population. 

 r 50 S3 per not. 



ToUl . . 8,960 or 1 iu 80-14 of population. 



TJw Dettte In New York, In 1837, .mounted to, Male*, 4,7 12 or SS-96 per c. 

 _ _ Females 4,U)iU or -HrU4 



Total, including S50 *till born tnd premtore 8,732 100' 



In 1S36 the Delh, li.clud.ng &00 Hill-born. co., were 8.0U9 



The rate of mortality, according to the popula- 

 tion (still-born excluded) has'been 



In 180.Y population, 7S.770 ; deaths, 2,297 ; or 1 to 32 98 



nr tT> O fflt 46-49 



1810 

 1815 

 1820 

 lv.'.-. 

 1830 

 1835 



96,373 

 100,619 

 123,706 

 166,086 



197,112* 



270,089 



2,073 

 2,405 

 3,326 

 4,774 

 5,198 

 6,608 



4183 

 37-19 

 3478 



M >>:>. 

 40-87 



The mean average duration of life, in New York, 

 is estimated to have been 25 - 45 years, between 

 1830 and 1835, inclusive; and only 22-05 years in 

 1836. 



Placet of Nativity ofthoie who died in 1836 and 1837. 



In June 1837, the whole number of paupers in 

 the alms-house, hospital, and Long Island farms, 

 was 2,453, including 871 children, chiefly Ameri- 

 can. In the penitentiary and bridewell were 335 

 male prisoners, and '286 females, white and coloured, 

 making a total of 3,074 paupers and prisoners un- 

 der the care of the commissioners of the alms- 

 house ; or, deducting the children, 2,203. In Sep- 

 tember 1837, the total number was 3,332, of 

 whom 2,045 were foreigners, and 1,287 native 

 Americans. In the year ending the 10th Septem- 

 ber 1837, an increase had taken place of 1,005 in- 

 mates, of whom 887 were foreigners. Of the 

 1,209 patients treated in the hospital in 1837, 982 

 were aliens, and only 227 were born in America. 

 Scarcely a vessel arrives from certain ports of 

 Europe with steerage passengers which does not 

 increase the applicants for admission into the alms- 

 house. 



The arrivals from foreign ports at the port of 

 New York were, in 



1835. 1836. 



American vessels 1,565 1,583 



English 287 366 



Othernations 192 344 



Total 2,044 2,293 



The coasting arrivals are between 4,000 and 

 5,000 per annum. 



The number of passengers that ai rived at New 

 York from foreign countries, in the six years 

 1831-36, was 266,494 ; or, on the average, 44,415 

 per annum. In the year 1836 they amounted to 

 60,540; and the number is stated to have increased 



In another document the population in 1830 is stated at 



- rs ' ! 



greatly in the season of 1837, the average being 

 nearly 2,000 per week. 



In 1791, the exports from New York to foreign 

 ports, amounted to 563,730. In the year ended 

 the 1st of October 1835, they were as follows- 



Domestic Produce. In American vessels. . 4,303,405 

 In foreign .. 580,805 



4,884,270 



Foreign Produce.- In American vessels.. 1.481,620 

 In foreign 4(11,71)4 



1,943,414 



6,837,684 



The value of the Imports in the same year was 

 In American vessels.. 18,626,278 

 In foreign 1,216,765 



19,843,043 



In 1832, the customs' revenue on imports into 

 New York amounted to 2,925,000, while the 

 total customs' revenue of the United States has 

 seldom exceeded 4,950,000. In 1834, the total 

 tonnage of New York, registered, enrolled, and 

 licensed, was 359,2'22 tons, or upwards of one-fifth 

 of the whole tonnage of the United States. The 

 number of vessels in port, in the busy season of 

 the year, varies from 600 to 700, exclusive of above 

 fifty steamers. 



During the thirty-six years to 31st December 

 1832, 47,744 patients were admitted into the New 

 York hospital, whose nativity is recorded as fol- 

 lows. The table is interesting, as showing the 

 tendency of emigration from differents parts of 

 the Old World into the New, up to the period to 

 which the table extends. 



Total . . 47,744 ICO- 



The great difference in the social condition of 

 native Americans and of the emigrants, particu- 

 larly Irish, who flock to New York, is distinctly 

 shown by the following statement of the birth- 

 places of the patients admitted to the Bellevue 

 hospital in 1836: 



Americans 



Irish . 



English and Welch 



Scotch 



Germans 



Other Europeans . 



741 

 122 

 22 



51 

 31 



227 



Mexicans, West Indians, & Nova Scotians 15 

 Total . . . 1,209 



NIMMO, ALEXANDER, F.R.S.E., and M R.I. A.; 

 an eminent civil engineer, was born at Kirkaldy, in 

 Fifeshire, in 1783. His father, although he latterly 

 kept a hard ware store, was originally a watchmaker. 

 The son was educated at the grammar school of Kir- 

 kaldy; after wards studied for two yearsat the college 

 of St Andrew's, and finally completed his studies at 



