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TABLE XA. - WESTERN DISTRICT.

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build statistical conclusions. In 1886 the mortality in Roseneath
was nearly 26 per 1000, and in 1889 it was less than 9, while the
mean rate for the ten years was about 15·5. And though in 1889
Roseneath had less than half the mortality of Luss, yet in the
decade Luss had a lower rate than Roseneath.
In the Eastern District as in the Western, the Registration
District which includes the largest burgh, had the highest death-
rate. Kirkintilloch had a mortality of nearly 22 per 1000, made
up of rates ranging from 18·9 in 1883, to 24·8 in 1889. The
lowest mortality was in East Kilpatrick parish, which includes
Milngavie and Bearsden. But on the whole, the rates in the
Eastern are higher than those in the Western District.
Deaths from Certain Causes. - From the Registrar-Gen-
eral's Detailed Annual Reports I have extracted for the five years,
1885-89, statistics bearing on the prevalence of zymotic and
tubercular disease in the county.
The Registrar-General in these Reports divides the Registra-
tion Districts of Scotland into five population groups - (1)
The principal towns, with a population of over 25,000;
(2) the large towns, with a population of from 10,000
to 25,000: (3) the small towns, with from 2000 to
10,000; and (4) and (5) the mainland-rural and insular-rural
districts, with populations under 2000.* Speaking generally, it
may be said that the Western and Eastern Districts of Dun-
bartonshire are made up of "small town" and "mainland-rural"
populations, and that the death-rates in these two groups
within the county will best represent the facts. It is not
possible here to separate out the police burghs like Kirkintilloch,
Milngavie, and Helensburgh from those towns - Alexandria, Bon-
hill, &c. - that have not become burghs, so that the figures in
Table XI. are not strictly confined to the population under the
District Committees. Nor is it possible to separate the Western
District from the Eastern. Not only so, but where a Registration
District includes a small town, no distinction is made between the
deaths in the town and those in the rural part around. Those
Registration Districts, therefore, which include small towns are
called "Small Town Districts," and the others are "Rural Dis-

*This grouping is not to be confused with that used in the Census
Reports already referred to.