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exercises sanitary administration there occurred, during the
year 1891, eight thousand and seventy-eight (8,078) births,
and four thousand one hundred and forty-nine (4,149) *
deaths, the number of births thus exceeding the number of
deaths by 3,929.
These figures, in a population of 209,308, are equivalent
to a birth-rate of 38·59 per 1,000, and a death-rate of 19·82.
During the same period the rates for the whole of Scot-
land were 31·29 and 20·75 per 1,000 respectively, so that
the County of Lanark compares favourably in both respects
with the country generally.
While this is so far satisfactory it is but right to point
out that the rates for Scotland include the large towns, in
which we do not expect to find the same favourable hygienic
conditions as ought to prevail in the country. Not that we
have by any means throughout "landward" Lanarkshire a
country or rural population in the strict acceptation of the
term. On the contrary, of a large part of the Middle and
Lower Wards it is no exaggeration to say that it forms
almost one large town.
By the kindness of the medical officers for the following
counties I am able to state the rates in 1891:-

--- Total Death-rate.
Renfrewshire - Upper District, --- 19·68
Renfrewshire - Lower District, --- 17·10
Dumbartonshire - Western District, --- 18·72
Dumbartonshire - Eastern District, --- 20·81
Stirlingshire - Central District, --- 22·92
Stirlingshire - Eastern District, --- 17·92
Stirlingshire - Western District, --- 19·96
Ayrshire, --- 19·25
Dumfriesshire, --- 17·82

* These figures are taken from the returns supplied by the local registrars.
They differ slightly from those given in Registrar-General's Quarterly Reports
- the explanation being, that I have stated the actual number of deaths; the
Registrar-General the number of deaths registered.

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TABLE I. - Showing Population, Acreage, and Total Number of Births and
Deaths in the County of Lanark (Landward), in comparison with
Scotland, for the Year 1891.

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