counties purely agricultural or pastoral can be compared with those
for the most part manufacturing or mining. Thus the proportion of
commitment for serious crime in the pastoral counties of

Anglesey, is 1 in 3900
Carnarvon, 1 in 2452
Selkirk, 1 in 1990
Cumberland, 1 in 1194

In the purely agricultural counties of

Aberdeenshire, is 1 in 2086
East-Lothian, 1 in 994
Northumberland, 1 in 1106
Perthshire, 1 in 1181

While in the great manufacturing or mining counties of

Lancashire, is 1 in 418
Staffordshire, 1 in 482
Middlesex, 1 in 439
Yorkshire, 1 in 839
Lanarkshire, 1 in 832[3]
Renfrewshire, 1 in 306

[Footnote 3: Lanarkshire has no police except in Glasgow, or its
serious crime would be about 1 in 400, or 350.]

Further, the statistical returns of crime demonstrate, not only that
such is the present state of crime in the densely peopled and