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County Council of Kirkcudbright.

PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Year ending 31st December, 1891.

ANNUAL COUNTY REPORT.

PART 1.
TO THE HONOURABLE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISION AND TO THE
COUNTY COUNCIL OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT.

My Lords and Gentlemen,
According to the regulations of the Board of Supervision,
under the Local Government (Scotland) Act, sec. 53, I now have the
honour to present my Annual Report on the County of Kirkcudbright.
As Medical Officer for the Districts, I have already had to sketch
the general sanitary state of the county in its main divisions. In the
County Report the District Reports for this year are reprinted in full;
because, being written by a single officer, they form as a total really one
report, and at the same time contain nothing that the County Council
may not consider. Rather, therefore, than summarise those condensed
and comparatively brief documents, I here constitute them part of my
County Report and devote the County Report proper, first, to certain
general remarks on administration; and next, to a preliminary system-
atizing of vital statistics for the County.

1. - ADMINISTRATION.

First. - The present Sanitary Staff for the County is insufficient.
This opinion is based on the following facts:- The County Sanitary