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COUNTY COUNCIL OF STIRLING.

CENTRAL DISTRICT.

REPORT BY MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOR YEAR 1891.

The Central District may be roughly described as forming an
irregular square, of which three margins are populated, while the
body of the square and the fourth margin consist of a highland
district with very few inhabitants. The populous parts are on
the northern, eastern, and southern borders, while on the western
border the hills are continued across into the Western District
of the County. Beginning at the extreme west of the northern
border, and coming eastward, the populous places are the villages
of Buchlyvie, Kippen, and Gargunnock. At the junction of the
northern and eastern borders is the Burgh of Stirling (which is, of
course, not included in the District), and in the immediate neigh-
bourhood are Cambusbarron, Causewayhead, and Cambuskenneth
Abbey. On the roads going south are the village of Whins of
Milton, the town of Bannockburn (the largest populous place in the
District), and the hamlets of Torwood and East Plean. At the south-
eastern extremity of the District is part of the village of Bonnybridge,
of which the rest is in the Eastern District, the Bonny Water form-


ing the boundary. Going westward, or rather south-westward,
principally along the main road between Edinburgh and Glasgow
(here between Falkirk and Kilsyth), the populous places are, in
succession, Dennyloanhead, Parkfoot, Longcroft, Haggs, Holland-

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bush, Kelvinhead, Banton, Lower Banton, and Queenzieburn.
The Haggs Registration District extends from Dennyloanhead to
Hollandbush, and includes a population of 1560. It forms an
almost continuous series of hamlets stretching for a distance of
between three and four miles along the public road, but nowhere
extending either north or south of the road.
The Table at p. 14 contains a statement of the population of
the several Registration Districts at the censuses of 1881 and
1891. The following is what I have been able to ascertain,
through the kindness of the local registrars, regarding the
population of the villages in 1891. Fuller information will not be
obtainable until the publication of the detailed Census Report:-

Kippen (village only), -- 330
Kippen, with Cauldhame and Shirgarton, -- 411
Gargunnock, -- 242
Cambuskenneth Abbey, -- 205
Cambusbarron, -- 1121
Causewayhead, -- 390
Whins of Milton and Milton, -- 476
Bannockburn and Muir, -- 2173
Torwood, -- 115
East Plean District, -- 393
Bonnybridge (Quoad Sacra within Central
District), -- 971

Estimating the villages in the Registration Districts of Haggs
and Kilsyth to have a population of about 2000, then the town
and village population within the Central District would amount
to about 8800, and the wholly rural population about 6100 - the
total population of the District having been at the census, 14,915.

HOUSE ACCOMMODATION.

Mr. Reid, the registrar of St. Ninians, has been good enough
to furnish me with details relating to the census of 1891,
which enable me to institute a comparison between the two
censuses with reference to the house accommodation in the two
most populous places in the District - Bannockburn and Cambus-
barron - and also in the Whins of Milton and East Plean.