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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM
Divisions and Civil Area in Population Pop. per Counties sq. miles sq. mile Males Females Total 7. South- Eastern. Linlithgow 120 27,946 24,862 52,808 440-1 Edinburgh . 362 205,765 228,511 434,276 1,199-7 Haddington 271 18,169 19,208 37,377 137-9 Berwick 461 15,383 16,967 32,290 70-0 Peebles 355 6,912 7,838 14,750 41-6 Selkirk . 257 12,909 14,803 27,712 107 8 8. Southern. Roxburgh . 665 25,901 28,599 53,500 80-4 Dumfries . 1,063 34,898 39,347 74,245 69-8 Kirkcudbright . 898 18,902 21,083 39,985 44-5 Wigtown . Total Scotland . 486 16,976 19,086 36,062 74-2 29,785 1,942,717 2,082,930 4,025,347 1351
The number of inhabited houses in Scotland in 1891 was 817,568 ; un- inhabited, 51,460; building, 5,618. According to parliamentary or police burghs, the population of the larger towns in 1891 was distributed as follows : —
In Towns of No. of Towns Inhabitants Per cent, of Total Population Over 100,000 .... Between 50,000 and 100,000 . 20,000 and 50,000 . 10,000 and 20,000 . Total .... 4 3 9 18 1,200,374 198,555 245,724 278,002 29-8 4-9 6-1 6-9 34 1,922,655 47-7
According to registration districts, the population of the principal towns of Scotland was as follows at the Census of 1891 and in the middlw of 1898, as estimated in the Registrar-General's Report : —
Towns Population lowns jggj Population 1898 Towns Population 1891 Population 1898 Glasgow Edinburgh . Dundee Aberdeen Leith . 618,052 264,796 155,675 123,327 69,885 724,349 295,628 164,575 140,381 76,277 Paisley . Greenock Perth , Kilmarnock . 69,295 63,512 30,768 27,968 75,533 61,170 30,623
At the Census of 1891 the population of Glasgow, parliamentary and suburban, was 658,198, and the increase (1881-1891) 13-9 per cent. The total population of these nine towns represented nearly two-fifths of the population of Scotland. In 1881 the total town population was 2,306,852 ; in
