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mortality coincides with or slightly precedes that among females in the 
rural area, while it is always later in the urban. 
Mortality among Females in certain Towns and in groups of Towns 
in Scotland . — While in the principal town districts the mortality among 
females exceeds that among males till 1886-90, the individual towns differ 
among themselves in this respect. 
Table IX. — Mortality at All Ages * from Tuberculosis of the Lungs per 10,000 
Males and Females in certain Towns and Groups of Towns in Scotland. 
Edinburgh. 
Aberdeen. 
Dundee. 
1901-7. 
M. ; 
F. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
Glasgow 
, i 
16-84 
15-23 
Paisley 
13-50 
14-22 
1871-80 
25-9 
20-0 
24*46 
24-20 
27-60 
28-30 
Four towns (Paisley, 
13*43 
13-60 
1881-90 
23-4 
16-8 
20-10 
20-42 
23-65 
24-74 
Kilmarnock, Kirk- 
caldy, and Perth). 
1891-1900 
21-6 
14-56 
18-80 
17-80 
21-30 
21-50 
Four towns (Coat- 
i 10-70 
13-07 
1901-7 
16*4 
11-92 
13-52 
12-97 
17-50 
17-05 
bridge, Go van, Hamil- 
ton, and Motherwell). 
Note. — It was not possible to make a correction for deaths occurring in institutions in 
these towns. But the value of the statistics, as showing the relation between the male and 
female rate and the reduction that has taken place in each, is probably not appreciably 
affected thereby. 
Plate VI. shows the age and sex incidence of mortality in these towns. 
The male rate at all ages in Edinburgh is not very different from that in 
Dundee, but the female rate is very markedly less. In 1901-7 the female 
rate was less than the male rate in all these towns except Paisley. The 
percentage reduction of the mortality between 1871-80 and 1901-7 has 
been practically the same in Edinburgh and Dundee. 
Edinburgh. Dundee. 
M. F. M. F. 
36*6 per cent. 
40 - 4 per cent. 
36-6 
per cent. 
40 per 
cent. 
The mortality at 
age 
period 15- 
-35 and 35- 
-55 years 
was as 
follows 
1871-80. 
1901 
-7. 
It 
>-35. 
35- 
-55. 
15-35. 
35-55. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
Edinburgh 
36-0 
28-8 
45-0 
28-0 
19-5 
15-0 
29*8 
18*7 
Dundee 
38-0 
41-5 
42-0 
39-0 
23-6 
22-0 
27'0 
25-0 
* Corrected to sex and age constitution of Scotland, census 1901. 
