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parish rate was 2·82, in West Kilpatrick; and the highest was
4·44, in East Kilpatrick. The death-rate from phthisis averaged
1·77 per 1000. Here Cumbernauld takes the lowest place, with
1·17, and East Kilpatrick the highest, with 2·68.

This concludes my Report for 1891. Many of the statistical
tables that have had to be introduced will not need to be repeated
in future years - and this, I take it, will be a boon as well to the
readers as to the writer. As I have indicated, the purpose of
these statistics is to show, by means of rates of mortality from
various causes, the health conditions that have prevailed previous
to the passing of the Local Government Act, so that in time to
come it may be possible to measure the results attained by the
new public health administration established under the Act.
JOHN C. McVAIL.

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