HH62/1/ABERD/65

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Aberdeen County Council.

HUNTLY DISTRICT.

REPORT BY MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For Year 1891.

The Huntly District is the smallest of the eight Dis-
tricts into which the County is divided. It embraces seven
parishes, viz., Cairnie, Drumblade, Gartly, Glass, Forgue,
Huntly, and Ythan Wells. The total acreage is 71,263, and
the population of the district, exclusive of the Burgh of
Huntly, is 7,538.
In 1891 this district had the lowest death-rate of the
districts in the County, the death-rate being 12.337. This
was due to low death-rates in the following disease groups:
- Tubercular, nervous, respiratory, and circulatory and
malignant. The district shows the lowest death-rate in the
first three groups of any district in the County. On the
other hand, the zymotic death-rate (i.e., deaths due to infec-
tious or contagious diseases), stands third highest of the
districts. The scarlet fever death-rate is more than the
total of the scarlet fever death-rates in all the other districts.
Diphtheria and typhoid fever are the other infectious dis-
eases which contribute to the zymotic death-rate.
The Tables in the Appendix give the general mortality
statistics for this and other districts.
In the following Table is given the acreage of each
parish, with its population in 1881 and in 1891, with the
increase or decrease, the death-rate in each parish in 1891,
and the average death-rate in each parish during the ten
years from 1861 to 1870 (inclusive):-