HH62/1/ABERD/37

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increment or decrease of population in each, the death-rate
in each parish last year, and the average death-rate in the
same parish during the ten years from 1861 to 1870
(inclusive):-

Table A.

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The following Table shows the average death-rate in the
district during the past ten years:-

Table B.
DEATH-RATES DURING EACH OF THE TEN YEARS PREVIOUS TO 1891.

[Table inserted]

Table C shows the position of the Deer District as
compared with the other districts in the County, and with
the Mainland Rural Districts of Scotland, and Scotland as a
whole:-

Table C.

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GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE SANITARY STATE OF THE
DISTRICT. - The sanitary state of the Deer District is capable
of improvements in many points, and more especially in
regard to many of the villages. In addition to improvement
in the drainage and water supply of a number of them, there
is no part of the County in which increased powers of
scavenging are more urgently required. To this the Local
Authority are fully alive, and the members of the District
Committee have joined most heartily in the petition framed
by the Public Health Committee of the County, and adopted
by the County Council, to ask Parliament for increased
powers in regard to scavenging of villages. Such powers,
if obtained, will undoubtedly be the means of vastly im-