_ the truth ; 
nearly 115 in the town of Paifley, 142; 
_ been thus colleéted. 
- much nearer the, truth. 
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6736 Newark, 5 
6505 ivi tens ihe 54 
6099 Swanfea, 5k 
3794 ‘Taunton, Mae se 
‘The principal towns in Scotland differ 
very materially from each other in this 
refpest. At Edinburgh the ‘proportion 
appears to be'a little more than nine per- 
fons to a houfe, which is probably below 
at Aberdeen it is 103 at Perth 
at Greenock, nearly 173 but at Dundee 
and Glafgow it appears to be only about 
33. Pofhbly in’ the two laft-mentioned 
‘places, ftories or apartments let to feparate 
tenants may ' have been® returned as 
houfes. 
There “is no. circumftance on which 
more light .has been thrown by the A& 
for afcertajning the population, than the 
proportion cf males and females, I¢ has 
been long known that more. male chil- 
dren come into the world than female, 
of which additional evidence is aiforded 
by the regifters of baptifms which have 
In every one of the 
twenty-nine years for which the returns 
were required, the males exceed the fe- 
males, and the totals are, 32285,188 
males, and 3,150,922 females, being in 
the proportion of 104 to 100.. This is 
much nearer equality than the proportion 
which previous accounts had appeared to 
eftablifh, and wiil probably be found 
It has been af- 
ferted, that although more males are born 
than females, there are more females liv- 
ing than males. This opinion appears 
to reft on the foundation of enumerations 
of places of {mall extent, or in which the 
males belonging to fuch places, who, at 
the time, were employed in the army or 
fea-fervice, were -not included. That 
he number of females is, in particular 
diftriéts, greater than that of males, can- 
not be denied ; and the proportion is in 
fome places fo great, that it cannot be 
accounted for by any general caufe, but 
muft arife from local circumftances ; of 
which the following are inftances : 
* Males. Females, 
Village of Churton, by Ai- 
ford, Chefter,* 43 97 
"TPowalhis of Woodfide, 
Cumberland, _ » I is. B66 
 * The townthip of Hatherten, Chefter, is 
Stated to contain 44 males and 147 females ; 
On'the Population, tc. f Grint Pith 
{May 1; 
Males. Females 
Parith of Little Shelford, 
Cambridge, Adee 69 15% 
Parith of mig letide: De- 
von, d SS vale 
Parifh of Alderton, Wilts, pL RAs 3 
Village of Stoke beau Acs the 
Biicks, y ors Sar 
Townthip of Thorne ybuieel 3 
“Northumberland, 54 109 
Weft Quarter of Hexham- 
fhire, ditto, | : 25 96 
Townfhip of Newtown, i gb 
ditto, : i Wier 19 
There are a’ few places in which tip 
number of males confiderably exceeds the 
females 3 as in the 
Males. Females, 
Townfhip of rib 
Chefter, 48 24. 
Parihh of Barki ike, Suf- ; 
talk, : q26ein nr44, 
and’ many other places in a lef$ propor- 
tion; but in general the number of fe, 
males certainly appears greateft,” and 
much more fo in the maritime counties 
than in the inland countiesy This’ divi- 
fion cannot be ftrittly made ; but the fol- 
Jowing flatement of the proportion’ of 
females to :00 males, will afford fuffici- 
ent proof of the fact juft mentioned, 
MARITIME COUNTIES. 
Northumberland, . 114 
Cumberland, . i nis 
Wefimorland, . ‘ 106 
Durham, 4 ea age ae ors 
Lancafter, ‘ um i 
Chetier, ® ex ; 6 
Gloucefter, Papa es % YA 
Someriet, . " - LIS 
Devon, ‘ “e 138 
Cornwall, : ‘ Wig ee 
Dorfet, etna . ° 134. 
Hamphhire, é AY Rin 107 
Suffex, 4 ne 102 
Kent, Si : 103 
Eiflex,. A, “ 103 
Suffolk, 2 ° 108 
Norfolk, . Pig 110 
Average, ae 110 
but this is probably erroneous, as the number - 
of perfons employed in agriculture is 83, be- 
ing meen double the number of. males, 
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