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Thus a steadily increasing proportion of the population,
accumulating with each succeeding year, is composed of babies,
children, and young people unprotected by vaccination which, in
the light of past experience, must be expected to be attacked by
Small Pox should that disease be introduced into the district.
INQUESTS.
The following verdicts were returned at Inquests held in the
district during the year:—
Natural Causes 69
Accidents 27
Suicide 8
Want of proper attention at birth 1
Overlying of Infants 4
Found Drowned 1
Alcoholism 1
Of the suicides the following were the methods adopted to
end life :—hanging, 2; coal gas poisoning, 1; phosphorus poisoning,
1; drowning, 1; cut throat, 2; and in one case the method was
not stated.