Descriptive account of the principal towns in Scotland

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Total Males ... ... ... ••• • 68 ' 994
Ditto Females 78,203
Total Persons 147,197
Average number of persons in each family 4 and ■£&?
The Married Men are to all the other Males as
21 ,473 to 47,521.
The Married Women are to all the other Females
as 21 ,473 to 56,730.
The Children under 12 years of age are equal to
one-fourth and.^^ of the whole population.
For every apartment there are 2 persons and T ^§^
to occupy it.
There is one Changerhouse, or place where spiri*
tuous liquors are sold, for every 20 families of all
descriptions.
In 1821, there were registered, Baptisms 2661
Marriages 1465
Burials 3686
Children of the Poor Vaccinated 1288
Sittings in the Churches on the Establishment, 26,150
Reformed Presbytery 1,100
United Secession
Original Burghers
Pyelief ... ...
Relief Independents
Independents
Methodists
Episcopalians
Roman Catholics ...
Unitarians
8,816
2,750
10,010
950
3,120
4,110
721
2,200
600