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Aberdeen County Council.

REPORT

ON THE

Ellon District of the County of Aberdeen.

Prepared in accordance with the Regulations of the Board
of Supervision, under the Local Government (Scot-
land) Act, 1889.

To
The District Committee,
ELLON DISTRICT, COUNTY OF ABERDEEN.

I beg to submit the following Report on the sanitary
condition of the district, as prepared for the Board of
Supervision and the County Council.
The Ellon District of the County of Aberdeen comprises
the parishes of Ellon, Logie-Buchan, Cruden, Slains, Foveran,
Udny, Tarves and Methlic. The parishes of Cruden, Slains,
and Foveran lie on the coast, giving to the district an exten-
sive seaboard. The fishing villages are Port Erroll, Bullers
of Buchan, North-haven, and Whinnyfold, in Cruden; Old
Castle and Collieston in Slains; and Newburgh in Foveran.
The other villages in the district are Ellon, Methlic, Tarves,
Hatton, Pitmedden, and Green of Udny.
The district comprises an area of 106,907 acres, with a
population, according to the census of 1891, of 16,767. The
population of the district in 1881 was 16,755, showing an