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DUNFERMLINE DISTRICT.
TABLE SHOWING NUMBER OF HOUSES IN VILLAGES IN DUNFERMLINE DISTRICT, PERSONS PER HOUSE, WATER.
SUPPLY, DRAINAGE, AND GENERALLY SANITARY CONDITION IN 1891.

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DISTRICT OF KIRKCALDY.

The District is formed of thirteen parishes, and is bounded on the
south by the sea - the parishes of Burntisland, Kinghorn, Abbotshall,
Dysart, Wemyss, and Scoonie being all bounded on the south by the
Firth of Forth; on the north are the County of Kinross and part of
Cupar District; on the west is Dunfermline District; and on the east,
part of St Andrews and Cupar Districts.
The District embraces the Royal Burghs of Burntisland, Kinghorn,
Kirkcaldy, and Dysart, and the Police Burghs of Lochgelly, Leslie,
Markinch, Buckhaven, and Leven. The Royal Burghs do not come
under the supervision of the District Committee, and the relationship
of Police Burghs, as far as the administration of public health is con-
cerned, is not well defined - if any exists at all.
The total acreage for the whole District is 67,817, from the
Ordnance Survey reports, and I do not think this has been altered by
the Boundaries Commission. At the census 1881, the population was
65,235, and at the last census 77,465, showing an increase of 12,230.
There is an increase of population in ten, and a diminution in
three, parishes. Wemyss and Buckhaven show the greatest increase,
and Kirkcaldy next.
In the following table the main facts of population and acreage are
given in tabular form.

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The areas of Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline Districts are very nearly
alike, but the population of Dunfermline District is only 49,271, and
there is in that District an average of 1.3 acres to each person, Kirk-
caldy having only 0.8 of an acre to each person.
The parish of Auchtertool has the largest mean of acres to person,
and Kirkcaldy the smallest, and Dysart is next to Kirkcaldy in this
respect.
These figures are necessary to show the area under the supervision
of the District Committee. The connection between person to acre