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.

REMARKS (1) In this county two illegitimate births are recorded.

(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 birth-
place, 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.

Worth.

Wright.