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TABLE IIIA.
Ϯ Including Woodilee Asylum.
‡ Including part transferred from Stirlingshire.
§ The Burgh of Clydebank was not formed in 1881, and the figures are only an approximate estimate of the present burghal area.

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In this table the "burghal" population has been distinguished
from the "landward," as only the latter is under the manage-
ment of the County Council. But the term "landward" does not
give a correct idea of its nature. Of the total so-called "land-
"ward" population of 49,037, no less than 21,788 live in towns*
of from 2000 to 9000 inhabitants, and 12,527 in villages of from
300 to 2000 inhabitants.
Table IV. contains the principal facts as to this town and village
population at the censuses of 1881 and 1891.
Exclusive of burghs the total population of the Western District
is 28,723, and of the Eastern District, 20,314. In the Western
District 19,634 live in towns (non-burghal) and about 1200 in vil-
lages, and in the Eastern District 2154 live in a town and 12,527
in villages. To a great extent, therefore, the Western District is
made up of town population and the Eastern District of village
population. Hence, in Table IV., the latter occupies more space
than the former, though the population is less. Taking the
county as a whole, inclusive of the burghs, the following were, in
1881, the percentages of town, village, and rural population as
compared with all Scotland:-

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While the town population was thus slightly under the percentage
of all Scotland, the village population was very nearly double, so
that the proportion of strictly rural population was very much less
than the average.

Sex and Age Distribution. - It will be noticed from Table
IV. that in the Vale of Leven (including Jamestown, Bonhill,
Alexandria, and Renton), in the Western District, there is a
considerable excess of females over males. This, of course, is
due to the number pf public works employing female labour. In
Cardross, Row and Garelochhead, in the Western District, and

*In the Census report for 1881 "towns" have 2000 inhabitants or
upwards, and "villages" have from 300 to 2000.