Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-28
VITAE STATISTICS OF BOSTON.

The report Of N. A. Appollonio. the
City Registrar Of Boston, shows that the
number OF births IN that city during the
year 1867 was 5S93-297I males and 2922
iemhies-an increase Of $50 compAfed with
the number recorded in 1866. This is
gratifying increase, although not salisfac-
tory one. there having been only one birth
u each S476 ofthe population, estimating
the latter 81 100000. In 1851 the births
were ~ the ratio Of one 10 tWewty-six OF
the population, and since thai year the
birth rate kas been Diminishing until il
bias reached iis preseal low slate, lib plain
Indications Of falling still lower.
The aumber Of marriages. re 5old sd duriag
The year was 2s97, an increase Of So over
1856. Off grooms AZ So per cent were
native born, and Of the brides over half
were native born. go native grooms mar
ried foreign brides. Less than IL per cent.
Of the grooms we're Of Boston birth, and
1870 per cent. Ct the brides we're born in
the cify. 43 gEooms were mihors, and s
Of them married minor brides. The Young
est couple married were IS and Is years
old. One groom Of 4he mature age of
81 married bride OF is years. Another
groom exactly four score years old took
unto himself one who was exactly half that
age, Another OFF, married one Of 81 !;
and still another Of 80 married one of As.
Ofthe grooms 3I92 per cenI. vera under 25
years Of age and 81. 81 per cent. we're between
26aBd 40. The brides under % yaarsof age
number 1923 per cent. of all the brides.
There were IS cOlored couples married
ak leas than we're recorded DUNG the pre-
II 81 IL Al
grooms we're eolored and the brides white.
an increass Of Eve Of this class compared
with 1866 One couple we're Indians and
two couples we're deaf and dumb. -Four
| groanas we're married foF the fourth time /;
three others chose Cor their fret wives those
who had been tEice widowed. Doe of the
grooms chose for his fourth wife a LAZY who
entered WedlOck for the fret time; two
others who had been widowed the same
/ number Of times married widows and
another, one who had been twice bereaved.
| One groom who had been bereaVed no less
than fonr times sought consolation for the
fifth time By a unioE With bride who had
been married bot once befote. =
There were 442l deaths Ia Boston du.
ring the year, an increase OF only AZ eon-
pared with the preceding year. Thessexes
were 2262 males, 2l59 females EstimA-
ting the population to bs,Jg05 600, LheEe
was one death 70 each 463e of the entire
| population. This ratio is not an unfayog-
able one when compared with the proceed.
ing year. The number Of deaths in Phila-
delpbia during the same year was IL, GEO,
which vas in the ratio Of one death in
AZ 80 Of the estimated population GOO, 600
Of that city. There were four more
deaths in BeeeEnber than in August owing
to the large mortahtyTrom scarlatiha dn-
ring the months II Lhe preceding year
there were 4 a6ts deatla in August
than in December. OF those who died
during the psi year $3.50 were born in
the United States. This number includes
the children of foreign parents, and makes
1850 psr cent. Of all who died. Those
who were born ia Ireland number 9l8,-
2076 per cent. Of the 9hole number and
sixty-siK per cent. Of those were foreign
born. There was decrease of more thsn
FIVE per cent in the mortality. among the
foreign born compared with the preceding
year. There were 1913 deaths, Al 80 per
cent. Of the whole under five years of age,
80 between ten and fifteen, lao between
fifteen and twenty, 63l between twenty
and thirty, 374 between thirty and forty,
348 between forty and fifty, 300 between tif-
~ and sixty, 24l between sixty and seven
ty, l9l between seventy and eighty, and
Ill over eighty. There we're 766 deaths
from consumption, BOG from scarlatiua,
and 227 from pneumonia.