Note 10 — Chapter LII · VLADIVOSTOCK.

Thus the official report dealing with the morality of the people called attention to the fact that many are convicts and soldiers sent to the district for punishment, to the unusually large importation of alcohol and Chinese brandy, to the high price of necessaries, the insufficient number of free marriageable women, and, lastly, to the low condition of education. The chief causes of crime were given as gambling and drunkenness; and the crimes committed in 1878 were: insubordination to authorities 13, breaking prison bounds 4, vagrancy 31, murder 5, personal violence 11, libel and assault 12, theft 27, and highway robbery 11.