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Aberdeen County Council.

TURRIFF DISTRICT.

REPORT BY MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For Year 1891.

The District of Turriff comprises the parishes of Auch-
terless, Fyvie, King-Edward, Monquhitter, and Turriff land-
ward with the two quoad sacra parishes of Millbrex and
New Byth. The acreage of the district is 100,419 with a
population of 12,982. The density of population is thus
.129 persons to the acre, or rather over seven acres to each
person. The total births in 1891 was 355, the total deaths
176. The birth-rate (i.e. the number of births per 1000 of
population) is thus 27.3, while the death-rate is 13.5. This
is a comparatively low death-rate, and for the year is stands
second lowest of the death-rates of the various districts, as
will be seen from Table II. in the Appendix.
The zymotic death-rate was rather a high one, caused
mainly by diphtheria and whooping cough. Fifteen deaths
in all were due to infectious disease, and if we take the
rough estimate of ten cases for each death, there would
have been 150 cases of zymotic disease in the district last
year.
The total tubercular death-rate is above the average,
being 1.617, the district in this respect standing third;
Deeside having the highest death-rate with 2.356, and Deer
the next, 1.640.
The death-rates from the diseases grouped under the
names nervous, circulatory, and respiratory, are very low.
The following Table shows the parochial acreage,