HUMAN LIFE IN GLASGOW. 
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night; the passengers to have the liber- 
ty of taking a cloak-bag for their clo- 
thes ; the Burgesses of Glasgow to have 
a preference to the coach ; the fare from 
the Jst March to the 1st September, to 
be 4?. 165 . Scots ( 85 . sterling); and 
during the other months, Si. 85 . Scots. 
As the undertaking was arduous, and 
could not be gone into without assist- 
ance, the Magistrates agreed to give 
Hume 200 marks a-year for five years. 
The coach was to run for that period whe- 
ther passengers applied or not, in con- 
sideration of his having actually receiv- 
ed two years' premium in advance^ 22/. 
45 . S^d. sterling. 
Dr. Cleland has obtained the follow- 
ing curious information from Mr. 
Dugald Bannatyne’s scrap book: — 
The public have been so long familiar- 
ised with stage-coach accommodation, 
that they are led to think of it as having 
always existed. It is, however, even in 
England, of comparatively recent date. 
The late Mr. Andrew Thomson, sen, 
informed me that he and the late Mr. 
John Glassford went to London in the 
year 1739, and made the journey on 
horse-back. That there was no turnpike- 
road till they came to Grantham, within 
one hundred and ten miles of London, 
That up to that point they travelled up- 
on a narrow causeway, with an unmade 
soft road upon each side of it. That they 
met from time to time strings of pack 
horses, from 30 to 40 in a gang, by which 
goods seemed to have been transported 
from one part of the country to another. 
The leading horse of the gang carried a 
bell, to give warning to travellers com- 
ing in the opposite direction ; and when 
they met these trains of horses, with 
their packs across their backs, the 
causeway not affording room to pass, 
they were obliged to make way for them, 
and plunge into the side road, out of 
which they sometimes found it difficult 
to get back again upon the causeway. 
Intercourse with Glasgow. — Dr. Cle- 
land has published the names and des- 
tinations of 61 stage coaches, which 
arrived and departed during 313 lawful 
days, each averaging 12 passengers. 
This gave 458,232 persons in the year. 
By 37 steam-boats, 25 passengers each, 
579,050; by the swift boats on the 
Forth and Clyde Navigation and Union 
Canal, 9L 976 ; by the light iron boats 
on the Paisly Canal, 307 j 275 ; by the 
boats on the Mailkland Canal, 31,7B4 
and by the Glasgow and Garnkirk Rail- 
road, 118, 882. These together i>.ake 
the gross number of persons passing 
and repassing to Glasgow daily amount 
to 1,587,198. 
Populations. — -The following table 
shows the amount of population in 
Glasgow and suburbs, at the time of 
the Reformation contrasted with the last 
government census in 1831 
In 1580.. 4,500 1740 . . . l7,0.=54 1831 .. .202,426 
The population fell < ff immediately 
after the restoration of Charles II, ; and 
it is a curious fact, that it required more 
than half a century to make up the de- 
falcation. 
Mortality Bills. — The marriage regis- 
ters in this city and suburbs, may be 
held as correct for all statistical pur- 
poses. The same thing applies to the 
register for burials ; and from having 
been appointed to take the sole charge 
of conducting the enumeration and clas- 
sification of the inhabitants of the city 
of Glasgow and suburbs, for the govern- 
ment census of 1821 and 1831, Dr. 
Cleland can vouch for their accuracy. 
Bills of Mortality are understood to 
contain a list of Births, Marriages, and 
Deaths, from parochial registers, at stat- 
ed periods, in connexion with the popu- 
lation. 
Births and Baptisms. 
Keturiis from Clergymen 
Males. 
Females. Total. 
and Lay Pastors 
3281 
3116 
6397 
And still*i)orn to do.... 
246 
225 
471 
Total.. . 
of this number there 
3527 
3341 
6863 
were registered only .. . 
Nnmber unregistered ex- 
1678 
1547 
3225 
clusive of still-iMtrn . . . . 
1603 
1569 
3172 
The following results are derived from the 
census of 1830-1. 
Malt'S. Females. 
Births ...... 3,527 3,341 Excess of Males 186 
Under 5 years . 1.5,422 14,855Excess<)f!VIales 567 
Uinler 10 years 28, •'>49 •27,435Excess<)fMalesl,l l4 
Under 15 years 39,040 38, 15.5 Excess of Males 885 
Under *20 yeais 47,529 50,411Excess of Fems2,822 
Under 30 years 62,706 73,4l9ExcessofFemsiO,783 
*^"latiou'^^^^ J 93,724 l03,702ExcessofFenisl4,978 
Burials 2,701 ‘2,484Excessof Males *217 
Probability of Human Life in Glasgow 
which partakes of a Manufacturing and 
Commercial Population. — Population, 
202,425 ; burials 5,185 ; rate of morta- 
lity, one in 39 4-lOOth persons. 
In 1820-l,with similar machinery, 
the population being 147,043 ; burials, 
3,686 ; the rate of mortality was one in 
39 89-lOOth persons, or, in other words, 
as near as may be to the mortality of 
1830-1. 
