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above the average rate. Taken according to divisions, the
rate per 1,000 was lowest in the First, 1·842; the Second
coming next with 3·846; while in the Third it was as high
as 4·745.
In Table IX., p. 77, where the rates are given for each
parish, it will be seen that they varied from 1·764 in
Stonehouse to 5·681 in New Monkland, where an unusually
large proportion of cases was in young children.

Influenza. - Owing to the great interest attaching to
this disease, it has been thought advisable to make it a
separate heading. Sixty-seven (67) deaths were attributed
to this cause during 1891, nearly the whole of which
occurred in the last four months of the year. Of these, 6
were registered in the Parish of Avondale, 6 in Blantyre,
8 in Bothwell, 11 in Cambuslang, 4 in Cambusnethan, 7 in
Dalserf, 3 in Glasford, 6 in New Monkland, 7 in Old
Monkland, 8 in Shotts, and 1 in Stonehouse. From this it
is evident that the Third Division suffered most heavily,
just as it did from respiratory diseases. Calculated in
terms of the population, the rates ranged per 1,000 from
0·256 to 2·277, that for the whole district being 0·468. In
East Kilbride, Hamilton, and Dalziel no deaths were
registered.

Violence. - Although in a large industrial district, like
that of Middle Ward, accidents are almost unavoidable,
I was scarcely prepared to find that so many as 138 people
lost their lives in one year from one or other form of
violence. Of that number, 14 were children under 5 years
of age, the most frequent cause of death among them being
drowning and burns. By far the highest rate per 1,000 is
found in Dalziel Parish, viz., 5·956, Hamilton coming next
with 2·085. The lowest was in Stonehouse, 0·294 per
1,000.