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was, in 1891, 20,274. The acreage is 94,330 acres, giving
an average of .214 persons to the acre, or one person for
every five acres.
The total number of children born in the district in 1891
was 544. The total number of persons who died was 292,
the difference of births in excess of deaths thus being 252.
The total death-rate was, in 1891, 14.402 per 1000 of the
population. The following table shows the position of the
district in this respect in comparison with the other districts
in the County, and with the Mainland Rural Districts of
Scotland, and Scotland as a whole:-

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The total number of deaths from zymotic (i.e., epidemic and
contagious) diseases was, in 1891, 34, giving a total zymotic
death-rate of 1.672. This is very much higher than that of
any other district in the County (see Table I. in Appendix),
and the explanation of this is undoubtedly to be found in the
immediate vicinity to the district of a large City, where
zymotic disease is always more or less prevalent. This is a
matter that requires all the more attention when we consider
that there are in the district no fewer than 191 dairies, from
which a large part of the milk supply of the City is drawn.
The District Committee, therefore, deserve great praise for
the energetic measures which they at once took for dealing
with zymotic disease. The adoption of the Notification
Act, the arrangement made for the reception of patients
into the City Hospital and the Woodside Burgh Hospital,
and the appointment of a well-trained Inspector, were steps
of the greatest importance for the district no less than for
the City.

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The total tubercular death-rate was 1.330, that from
phthisis or consumption alone being .887.

Table B shows the population of the parishes in the
district in 1881 and 1891, the average parochial death-rate
in 1891, and also during the ten years from 1861 to 1870,
inclusive.

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Table C shows the average death-rate in the district, as
a whole, during the last ten years.

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