Supplement to the monthly and quarterly returns of the births, deaths, and marriages registered in Scotland during the year 1866; also the vaccination returns relative to the children born during 1865.

  • Great Britain. General Register Office.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Supplement to the monthly and quarterly returns of the births, deaths, and marriages registered in Scotland during the year 1866; also the vaccination returns relative to the children born during 1865. 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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    I860, gives the annual proportion of 74 marriages to every ten thousand persons. This increased proportion of marriages would satisfactorily account for the increased proportion of births, the increase in both having been coincident. It is worthy of note that the same coincidence has occurred in England during these years, though not to the same extent—a rise in the proportion of marriages having been attended with an increased proportion of births. This fact, therefore, clearly indicates, that during these years the working classes, who constitute about 83 per cent, of the population, have been in a more prosperous condition than perhaps they ever were in this country, and have hence been induced, both in England and in Scotland, to enter more largely into marriage than they have ever been previously known to do. Of the 113639 births, 66511 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 47128 were registered in the 885 Rural Districts (which embrace the remainder of the population of Scotland). This indicates a birth-rate equal to 394 births in every ten thousand persons in the Town Districts, but only that of 321 births in a like population in the Rural Districts. Of the 113639 births, 102079 were legitimate, and 11560 illegitimate; thus indicating that 10T per cent, of the births were illegitimate. Unlike the continental kingdoms, the Rural Districts of Scotland furnish the highest proportion of illegitimate births ; for, while 9*9 per cent, of the Table III.—Births, Deaths, and Marriages in the Town and Rural Districts of Scotland in 1866, with the proportion of these to the Estimated Population. Also the number of Illegitimate Births, and their proportion to the Total Births. H ' Popula- tion BIRTHS. Illegitimate Births. DEATHS. MARRIAGES. 1866. estimated to the middle of 1866. Number. Per cent, to Popu- lation. Number. Per cent, to Births. Number. Per cent, to Popu- lation. Number. Per cent, to Popu- lation. | 126 Town Districts 1,688,288 66,511 3-939 6,584 9-9 45,174 2-669 15,223 0-901 j 885 Rural Dis- > TRICTS, . j 1,465,125 47,128 3-216 4,976 10-5 26,099 1-781 8,406 0-573 SCOTLAND . 3,153,413 113,639 3-603 11,560 10-1 71,273 2-260 23,629 0-749 ! I Table IV.—Proportion of Illegitimate to every 100 Births in Scotland, its Divisions and Counties, during I860. DIVISIONS. Per Cent, of Illegit. Counties. PerCent. of Illegit. Counties. PerCent. of Illegit. Counties. Per Cent.] of J Illegit. | SCOTLAND. 10T Shetland 4-5 Forfar 12-3 T.nnnvlr 8 9 Northern Division 6-2 Orkney 5-6 Perth 10-7 Tdnlifhp-mv, 9-3 North-Western Do. 6-3 Caithness 8-4 Fife 9-0 Edinhnrp-h . 9-4 North-Eastern Do. 15-7 Sutherland 4*5 Kinross 7*3 Haddington .... 7.9 East-Midland Do. 10-8 Ross & Cromarty 51 Clackmannan 8-7 Berwick 12-9 West-Midland Do. 8-2 Inverness 7-4 Stirling 8-5 Peebles 10-5 South-Western Do. 8-9 Nairn 106 Dumbarton 7-9 Selkirk 10-0 South-Eastern Do. 9-6 Elgin 149 Are-vll 7-8 Roxburgh 11 3 Southern Do. 13-6 Banff 16-1 Bute 10-1 Dumfries 15-6 Aberdeen 161 Renfrew S-4 Kirkcudbright 12 9 Kincardine 14-5 Ayr 9-3 Wigtown 15 6