Glasgow Courier. — 1864-06-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES IN MAY.  The following is an abstract of the return of the births, deaths, and marriages registered in the eight principal towns in Scotland during the month of May last, published by authority of the Registrar-General:— During the month of May, 1864, there were registered in the eight principal towns of Scotland the births of 3337 children, of whom 1678 were males and 1659 females. Of these 2995 were legitimate and 342 illegitimate; being in the proportion of one illegitimate in every 97 births, or 102 per cent. of the whole as illegitimate. In the several towns (Edinburgh and Leith being considered as one) the proportion of illegitimate births were as follow: In Greenock, 7.1 per cent.; in Glasgow, 88 in Paisley, 9'2; in Perth, 9.4; in Edinburgh and Leith, 108; in Dundee, 14'l; and in Aberdeen, 16.2 per cent, 465 marriages were registered in the eight principal towns during the month, being the highest number registered during the month of May since 1855. The deaths of 2233 persons were registered in the eight principal towns during May, of whom 1134 were males and 1099 females. This number is also the highest for May since 1855. Of the 2233 deaths recorded during the month, 979, or 43 per cent., were of children under five years of age. In Perth 32 per cent. of the persons who died were under five years of age; in Aberdeen, 33 per cent. ; in Edinburgh, 35 per cent.; in Greenock, 37 per cent.; in Glasgow, 47 per cent.; in Leith, 48 per cent.; and in Paisley and Dundee, 50 pei cent. each. The zymotic (epidemic and contagious) class of diseases proved fatal to 545 persons in the eight towns, constituting 24 per cent. of the mortality. This rate was exceeded, however, in Paisley, owing to the prevalence of small-pox, hooping-cough, and typhus; in Greenock, owing to the prevalence of typhus; and in Perth, owing to the prevalence of smallpox and diarrhcea. Typhus was again the most fatal of the epidemics, having caused 159 deaths in the eight towns, or 7'l per cent, of the total mortality. This high rate has, however, been exceeded in Paisley, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Greenock, where the death-rate from typhus was respectively 8, 81, 92, and 17'1 per cent. of the total deaths in each of these towns. Of the 159 cases tabulated under the term typhus, 112 were registered as typhus, 25 as inflammatory, simple, or relapsing fever; 13 as gastric fever, and 9 as typhoid or enteritic fever. Hoopingcough was the next most fatal of the epidemics, having caused 121 deaths, or 54 per cent, of the mortality in the eight towns. Though smallpox in the eight towns only caused 62 deaths, or 2'7 percent. of the mortality, yet it was so virulent and fatal In Paisley, where it rages as an epidemic, as to have caused B'B per cent, of the deaths in that town. in the eight towns, measles caused 27 deaths; scarlatina, 55; diptheria, 19; diarrhcea, dysentry, and cholera, 36; croup, 30; metria, 5; and erysipelas, 10. 31 deaths were caused by apoplexy, 40 by paralysis, and 83 by diseases of the heart. The deaths from inflammatory affections of the respiratory organs (not including consumption, hooping-cough, or croup) numbered 358; those from comsumption glue amounted to 308. Of the deaths by violent causes, which numbered 63, 5 were suicides. 1 death resulted from intemperance, and 2 from delirium tremens. A child, aged 3 years, died from gastritis, caused by swallowing a button or ring. 6 of the persons who died were aged 90 years and upwards, the oldest of whow, the widow of a carpenter, NYIW aged 04 yeam