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Aberdeen County Council.

DEER DISTRICT.

REPORT BY MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For Year 1891.

The Deer District is the second district in extent, and by
far the largest in population of the districts into which the
County is divided. Its total acreage is 166,817, while the
population at last census amounted to 34,020 (i.e., 13,746
more than the Aberdeen District, which comes second in
point of population.) It is a wide district, and contains
numerous villages both inland and on the coast.
The total death-rate in the whole district for 1891 was
15.079, which is above the average of the rural death-rate
in Aberdeenshire for the same year - the average being
14.484. The number of villages and the density of the
population would lead us to expect a higher death-rate than
we would find in a district with few villages and a more
scattered population. When we look into the elements that
make up this death-rate, we find that the rates from the
general groups of diseases, tubercular, respiratory, nervous,
and circulatory, are high. (See Table in Appendix.) The
zymotic rate, on the other hand, is a very low one, being
only .970.
The following Table gives the parishes comprised in the
district, with their population in 1881 and in 1891, with the