HH62/1/BANFF/23

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COUNTY OF BANFF.

FIRST OR BANFF DISTRICT.

Report by the District Medical Officer,
For 1891.

Population at Census of 1891, -- 22,146
Population estimated to the middle of 1891, -- 22,154
Approximate Area in Acres, -- 122,000
Approximate density of Population, 0.18 persons to an Acre.

Extent. - The district comprises 15 Parishes or Registration
Districts. Two Royal Burghs and four Police Burghs are situ-
ated within the District. Of the latter, three have been formed
during the past ten years. I regret that, owing, first to having
failed to get the exact extent of the areas embraced within the
Burghs, and second, to the recent decisions of the Boundary
Commissioners, which have altered more or less the boundaries
and area of several of the Parishes, I am unable to give the
exact Acreage of each Parish. Approximately the extent of the
District is 122,000 Acres.
Population. - In seven of the Parishes the population has
increased, in eight it has decreased, during the last decade. On
the whole the population has increased. Owing to want of
information as to acreage, I am unable to give the density of
population in the different districts, but hope to do so on a
future occasion.

1. - General Sanitary State.
Many different factors tend to influence directly or indirectly
the sanitary state of a district. Its position, the nature of the
soil and its conformation, the rainfall and meteorological con-
ditions generally all affect it; but what we have principally to
deal with are the conditions more immediately connected with
the inhabitants - their occupation, their accommodation and im-
mediate surroundings, the diseases most commonly met with