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Other causes of death. - Next in natural order to the zymotic
diseases come the Septic diseases with a death-rate of 2·0 per ten
thousand. - The death-rate from Phthisis was as high as 20·6 per ten
thousand, as compared with 12·9 in the Second District; and the
death-rate from Tubercular diseases other than Phthisis was 12·7 as com-
pared with only 1·6 in the Second District - an inexplicable difference.
The other death-rates were Cancer, 6·7; Diseases of the nervous system,
19·1; Diseases of the circulatory system, (heart disease, etc.) 18·0;
Diseases of the respiratory system, 37·1; from Violence, (accidents, etc.)
2·0.

Summary of the more important work carried over from
1891 to 1892. - 1. Mearns and Giffnock Water Supply. 2. Neilston
Water-Supply. 3. Clarkston Drainage. 4. Eaglesham Drainage.
5. Mearns Drainage. 6. Question of the acquisition of Sir John
Stirling Maxwell's sewer in the village of Nitshill as a public sewer
for the village, and its extension. 7. Hospital accommodation and
ambulance, more especially in connection with Cowglen Hospital.
8. Sanitation of Slaughter-houses. 9. Sanitation of common Lodging-
houses. 10. Sanitation of Bakehouses.

II.
SECOND OR LOWER DISTRICT.

Population. - The population of this District, for sanitary pur-
poses, at the date of the Census, was 19,347; the density of popula-
tion, 148 persons to the square mile.
Births. - 553 births were registered within the District during the
year, yielding a birth-rate of 27·1 per thousand of the population, as
compared with 31·0 in the First District. The Illegitimacy-rate was
as low as 4·0 per cent. of the births. The birth-rate and other rates
for the country generally have already been given in connection with
the figures for the First District.
Deaths. - The deaths occurring within the District were 321, to
which have to be added 10 deaths of persons belonging to the District
occurring in Public Institutions, furnishing a death-rate, over the
year, of 17·1, as compared with 19·7 in the First District.
The infantile death-rate was as low as 96, as compared with
114 in the First District.
The zymotic death-rate was as high as 3·3, which must be con-
sidered a very high death-rate for a country district; the excess is

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due to the excessive prevalence of Measles in the Parishes of Kilbar
chan and Houston during the year, and the mortality arising out of
that prevalence, there having been 26 deaths in the Parish of Kilbar-
chan, and 12 in the more sparsely populated Parish of Houston.
Only 6 cases of Diphtheria were notified between 15th May and
31st December; of these 4 were from Linwood or its vicinity. The
death-rate was 3·6 per ten thousand of the population.
72 cases of Scarlet fever were notified, but no death from this
disease occurred during the year; the largest number of cases
occurred scattered over the Parish of Kilmalcolm.
The death-rate from Enteric fever was only 0·5 per ten thousand,
and only 20 cases of the disease were reported, - of these 7 were
from Linwood.
Measles, as I have said, was excessively prevalent in certain parts
of the District during the year, and resulted in a death-rate as high
as 20·2 per ten thousand. In dealing with this disease, matters are
rendered very difficult in consequence of the fatalistic attitude
assumed by a large proportion of the population, and their heedless-
ness. It is to be hoped that the visits of the sanitary staff, under the
Notification Act, will have an educative effect.
The death-rate from Whooping-cough was 2·1.
In respect of Diarrhœa, the Second District shows up worse even
than the First - the death-rate having been 6·2. The largest number
of deaths from this cause occurred in the Parish of Kilmalcolm.
The following table is notable, in comparison with the corres-

Classification of cases of Infectious Disease according
to size of house.

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