Supplement to the monthly and quarterly returns of the births, deaths, and marriages registered in Scotland during the year 1867; also the vaccination returns relative to the children born during 1866.

  • Great Britain. General Register Office.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Supplement to the monthly and quarterly returns of the births, deaths, and marriages registered in Scotland during the year 1867; also the vaccination returns relative to the children born during 1866. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Of tlie 114115 births, 67953 were registered in the 126 Town Districts (which embrace'all the towns with populations of 3000 and upwards at the census of 1861), while only 46162 births were registered in the 890 Rural Districts, which embrace the remainder of the population of Scotland. This indicates a birth-rate equal to 395 births in every ten thousand persons in the Town Districts, but only that of 318 births in a like population in the Rural Districts. Here also the proportion of births closely corresponded to the proportion of marriages in the respective populations. Of the 114115 births, 103103 were legitimate, and 11012 illegitimate, thus indicating that 9*6 per cent, of the births were illegitimate. As usual, the proportion of illegitimate births was greatest in the Rural Districts ; for, while only 9*4 per cent, of the births were illegitimate in the Town, 9*9 per cent, were illegitimate in the Rural Districts. (Table III.) Table IV. shows the proportion of illegitimate births in the several divisions and counties of Scotland, and generally accords with the returns of former years. Thus, while the lowest proportion of illegitimacy prevails in the counties embraced in the Northern and North-Western Divisions of Scotland, the highest proportion prevails in the counties embraced by the North-Eastern and Southern Divisions. Four counties had under 5 per cent, of illegitimate births, viz. Shetland 3*5 per cent., Orkney and Ross and Cromarty each 4*5 per cent., and Sutherland 4^9 per cent ; while eight counties had above 12 per cent, of illegitimate births, viz. Elgin and Kinross each 12’7 per cent., Dumfries 14*2 per cent., Banff 14’6 per cent., Tabt.is III.—Births, Deaths, and Marriages in the Town and Rural Districts of Scotland in 1SG7, with the proportion of these to the Estimated Population. Also the number of Illegitimate Births, and their proportion to the Total Births. ! Popula- tion BIRTHS. Illegitimate Births. DEATHS. MARRIAGES.] 1807. estimated to the middle of 1867. Number. Ter cent, to Popu- lation. Number. Per cent, to Births. Number. Ter cent, to Popu- lation. Number. Per j cent, to Popu-: lation. i jt 12G Town Districts 1,718,968 67,953 3-953 6,432 9-4 44,453 2-586 14,458 0-341 ; 800 Rural Dis- > TRTCTS, . f 1,451,801 46,162 3-186 4,580 9-9 23,571 1-623 8,063 0-538 | SCOTLAND . 3,170.769 114,115 3-595 11,012 9-6 69,024 2-145 22,521 0-707 i 1 TABLE IV.—Proportion of Illegitimate in every 100 Births in Scotland, its Divisions and Counties, during 1807. DIVISIONS. I’er Cent, of Illegit. j Counties. Per Cent, of Illegit. Counties. Per Cent of Illegit. Counties. Ter Cell -S of 1 Illegit.. E SCOTLAND. 9-6 Shnflaml . 3 5 Forfar 11*0 Lanark s-fi | | Northern Division 5*5 Orkney 4,5 ! Perth 11-4 i Linlithgow 8-3 | i North-Western Do. [ North-Eastern Do. 5 9 fbiithnoss 80 Fife 7,8 Edinburgh 9 3 j MS Sutherland 4-9 Kinross 12-7 Haddington .... 8-9 { East-Midland Do. 10-1 Ross & Cromarty 4-5 Clackmannan 9-2 | Berwick 10*7 \ West-Midland Do. Soutii-Western Do. 7-8 1 S-4 G'8 Stirling 8-3 ‘ Peebles 11-5 \ Nairn 9,5 Dumbarton 7-2 Selkirk if 5 South-Eastern Do. Southern Do. 9 3 ! Fierin 12-7 Argyll 7*5 . Roxburgh in; S 14-4 14‘6 Bute 9-1 Dumfries 14-2 ’ 3 Aberdeen 15 1 Renfrew 71 Kirkcudbright 15-i i