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TABLE XVI. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
Showing Monthly, Actual, and Average Rainfall for Ten Years at Two Places.

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PART II.

ANNUAL DISTRICT REPORTS.

1. - NORTHERN DISTRICT.

According to the requirements of the Board of Supervision, I now
present my annual report with regard to the Northern District of the
Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
For certain general remarks applicable, with verbal changes, to all
four districts equally, I would refer to my report on the Western
District, where I have given a typical sketch of the sanitary condition
of farm-houses, cot-houses, and villages. In the present report I
include only matters prominent in the Northern District.

1. - GENERAL SANITARY CONDITION.

A. - DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION.
The district includes the parishes of Balmaclellan, Carsphairn,
Corsock Bridge (quoad sacra), Dalry, Kells, and Parton. The total
acreage is 178,575 acres. The total population by the census of 1891
is 3846. This gives an average of 0·021 persons to the acre, or other-
wise, on round numbers, one person to every 50 acres. The greater
part, however, of Kells, Carsphairn, and Dalry are uninhabited moun-
tain lands, and the population naturally gravitates towards the valley
of the Ken. The principal aggregations are at Carsphairn Village,
Dalry Village, Balmaclellan Village, the Royal Burgh of New-Galloway,
and Parton Village. The rest of the population spreads itself variously
among the farms.

B. - OCCUPATION, INDUSTRIES, AND SANITARY STATE.
The sole productive industry of the Northern District is farming,
and all that depends on it. The sanitary question, therefore, is
essentially the same as in the Western District, to the report on which