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TABLE II. - Density of Population, Birth Rate, Infantile, and other Death Rates.

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TABLE III. - Cases of Infectious Disease coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer
during the Year 1891.
(Act adopted in October 1st, 1890, and underneath are Cases notified since adoption).

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21st March, 1892. D.G. SUTHERLAND, Medical Officer.

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made about the Water District of Lochinver, but no flagrant case of
nuisance was discovered beyond the usual midden heaps at some
places.
Stoer Village, including the School, is veritably supplied with
ditch water, and no other pure supply is much used. There is always
the temptation for people to use what is nearest when there is a
difficulty in fetching a purer supply from a distance. Certainly,
this supply is dangerous, as was previously pointed out.
In most of our West coast Parishes there is quite a want of
proper roads and footpaths, and I have no doubt whatever but that
disease often results from school children and others getting wet and
cold while passing from their homes to schools or places of necessary
resort. Much hardship and ill health result also from the poor or
deficient landing points for fishermen getting off their boats.

CLYNE - Population, 1717; acres, 74,504.
Contains Villages of Brora and Lower Brora, in which latter
dwell over 300 fisher people, much overcrowded in their houses.
Water supply is now excellent and plentiful (fever was very
prevalent before introduction of Water Supply); but drainage is
entirely deficient in many places. Refuse heaps abound and filth
stagnates near several parts, though not so much as formerly.
Broad puddles exist near public pumps because of no outgoing drain
for surface water.
Few privies or ashpits exist where most needed, and some of the
drains are permitted to remain choked because unflushed, and no
arrangements for flushing them. In other places, particularly
Railway Terrace, earth closets exist in dangerous proximity to
dwelling-houses. They are too large in receptacles, difficult of access,
badly drained, and in every way a decided nuisance.
In Dalchalm and Greenhill the inhabitants are badly off for
water, and at my suggestion the people some time ago applied to the
County Council to consider their case, and extend to them the
benefits at present obtained by Brora and East Brora. Nothing has
as yet come of the requisition sent or the granting of the request,
though the same unwholesome supply of water still continues to be used.
The same may be said of Badnellan, another Township which,
because of its altitude above water-bearing strata, is at a great
disadvantage, and hard-working women have to go in dry summers
nearly half-a-mile for river water. The Brora water could readily
supply this district too, and be sufficient for all.
Doll District in some parts has not a sufficient supply; and,
moreover, what houses are supplied by Sputie Burn are liable to the
dangers of periodical pollution from Uppat Farm steading and house
drain. Other supplies out of wells are scant.