SEX. COLOR. TABLE VI-STATEMENT OF BIRTHS AND STILL-BIRTHS. Showing of births; 1, total births; 2, plural births; 3, color-while, colored, unknown; 4, sex-male, female, unknown: births and stillbirths by counties; 5, parentage-nutive, foreign, mixed, unknown. Showing of still-births: 1, total still-births; 2, sex-male, female, unknown; 3, color-white, colored, unknown. COUNTIES. COLOR. SEX. PARENTAGE. Adair. Adams Allamakee 401 2 181 241 93 4 91 2 46] 46 1 82 4 4 3 43 311 12 23 19 1 23 10 Appanoose 91 20 1 701 371 52 761 5 Grand total. REMARKS (1) In this county two illegitimate births are recorded. 6.305 114 4.102 28/2,1753,1533,078 744,537 876 649 243 290 149 115/26 251 633 (2) The number of foreign births is here, as elsewhere, increased by the entry of "English," no birth-place being given; "English" meaning "American," or native of United States. (3) The births from foreign parentage is here, as elsewhere, increased by the use of the term "German," without any birth-place, meaning a native of German descent, or one having a German name. (4) In this county two "bastards are recorded. Total births, 6,305; plural births (twins), 114; white births, 4,102; colored births, 28; unknown, 2,175; male births, 3,153; female births, 3,078: unknown sex, 74; births of N. N. parents, 4,537; births of F. F. parents, 876; births of M. parents, 619; births of V. parents, 243. (5) Scott county has a large foreign population, but the foreign parentage is undoubtedly swelled in the record by the use of the term " German," without a birthplace, meaning generally "American." (6) Twin females; total still-births, 290; males, 149; females, 115; sex unknown, 26; white still-births, 251; colored, 6; color unknown, 33. N. N. Both parents native. F. F. Both parents foreign. M.-Mixed; 2. e., one parent foreign and the other native. V.-Unknown; one or both parents unknown. |