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Diseases of the respiratory system show also a high rate,
due, probably, to the proximity of the district to the sea
and its exposure to east winds, as also to the damp charac-
ter of a large part of the district. In future reports I shall
deal more fully with this subject.
The Tables in the Appendix have been prepared from
information given me by the various registrars in the
County.

ABERDEEN COUNTY COUNCIL.

GARIOCH DISTRICT.

REPORT BY MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR YEAR 1891.

The Garioch District has an acreage of 104,397 acres
with a population of 15,713. The density of population is
thus .150 persons to the acre, or 6.6 acres to each person.
The number of births during the year 1891 was 457;
the number of deaths for the same period being 223. The
total death rate in the district 14.318 is almost exactly
the average of the rural part of Aberdeenshire, viz., 14.484.
The zymotic death rate is only .954. Next to Alford, this
is the lowest zymotic death rate in the various districts in
1891.
Tubercular diseases are in this district rather above the
average of the whole county, being 1.399 per 1000; to
which phthisis alone contributes 1.018.

The following Table shows the population of the parishes
in 1881 and 1891, with the death rate for each parish, and