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this being a decrease on the previous year of 14; the
verdicts returned were
From Accidental Causes 17
Natural Causes 9
Suicide 1
Found Dead. No evidence of cause 1
Of the accidental causes 4 were by Asphyxia under bed
clothes, 3 by burning, the clothes taking fire, 3 by injuries,
2 by drowning, and 1 by the impaction of bread in the
throat causing suffocation. The suicide was that of a
male aged 46 by drowning whilst mentally deranged;
the natural causes were principally from fits and heart
disease. The noticeable feature, as compared with last
year, is the decrease of suicides, there being but 1
as against 7.

Disease and Mortality amongst the Union Poor:—
The number of cases which came under treatment were
384, 145 being males and 239 females. These numbers
are 3 in excess of those of 1875, and small they are when
we consider the nature and extent of our population; it
shews clearly that there cannot be a large number of
actual poor amongst us, or else in the time of health and
prosperity they adopt the manly and independent course
of making provision for the time of adversity, which sooner
or later is sure to come. These applications for parochial
medical relief are less than they were ten years ago when
the population was not more than half of what it is at
present, this shows that although the immigration into