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human habitation, so that it may be possible to present to
the Council, from time to time, a partial, and ultimately a
complete, record of the County. Such a survey can be
carried out by merely systematising the work of the Inspec-
tors, and it would be of great value. It does not imply that
everything is to be made perfect at once, but merely renders
us cognisant of the conditions throughout the County.

I have the honour to be,
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
Your obedient Servant,
JAMES P. WATT,
Medical Officer of Health for Aberdeenshire.

ABERDEEN, 8th April, 1892.

Aberdeen County Council.
REPORT
ON THE
Aberdeen 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,
ABERDEEN DISTRICT, COUNTY OF ABERDEEN.

GENTLEMEN,
I beg to submit the following Reports on the district,
prepared in accordance with the Regulations issued by the
Board of Supervision.
The Aberdeen District is a district which, from a health
point of view derives special importance from its vicinity
to the City of Aberdeen. The district itself is an extensive
and populous one. Like the rest of the County it is almost
entirely agricultural; but along the Don valley there are
several very large works for the manufacture of paper and
one for manufacture of cloth. Accordingly, in the parish
of Newhills we have a considerable factory population.
In the Dee valley there are many suburban villas, while the
villages of Cults and Culter are rapidly increasing in size.
At Culter there is a large paper factory.
The total population, which is larger than that of any
other district in the County, with the exception of Deer,