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be said that the Stirlingshire Districts are made up of "small
town" and "mainland-rural" populations, and that the death-
rates in these will best represent the facts. It is not possible
here to separate out the police burghs like Grangemouth
and Denny from places like Lennoxtown, Stenhousemuir, and
Bannockburn, which have not become burghs, so that the figures
in Table V. are not strictly confined to the populations under
the District Committees. Nor is it possible to separate one
District of the county from another. Not only so, but where a
Registration District includes a small town, no distinction is made
between the deaths in the town and those in the rural parts
around. Those Registration Districts therefore which include
small towns are called "Small Town Districts," and the others are
"Rural Districts."
The "Small Town Districts" of the County are Alva,* Bannock-
burn, Campsie, Denny, Falkirk (landward), Grangemouth, Kilsyth,
and Larbert; and the "Rural Districts" are Airth, Baldernock,
Balfron, Bothkennar, Buchanan, Dunipace, Haggs, Drymen, Fintry,
Gargunnock, Killearn, Kippen, Muiravonside, Polmont, Slamannan,
Strathblane, and St. Ninians. Falkirk (burgh) and Stirling are
called by the Registrar General "Large Town Districts," and are
not included in the following Tables.
Table V. contains a statement of the estimated population
and of the total deaths in the Small Town Districts and the Rural
Districts respectively in each of the five years, 1885-89.
(SEE TABLE V.)

Table VI. is based on Table V. It gives, not the actual
deaths, but the death-rates, and, to avoid decimals, these have
been calculated per 100,000 of the population, instead of per 1000.
(SEE TABLE VI.)

The chief use of these tables will be to form a standard by
which to measure the health of future years; but it may be
interesting in the meantime to insert for comparison with Table
VI. the corresponding facts for the Small Town Districts and
Mainland-Rural Districts of all Scotland. Table VII. contains
these facts.
(SEE TABLE VII.)

*Alva is now transferred to Clackmannan, but in the years included in
the tables it was in Stirlingshire.

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TABLE V. - COUNTY OF STIRLING.
Deaths from certain Causes, 1885-9.

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