New Zealand Gazette – 1880 – No. 82

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✨ Vital Statistics Report Tables

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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on the deferred-payment system. Ormondville is the NOTE. -Plans may be seen, and further particu-
outlet of 8,000 acres of occupied lands and 5,000 lars of the land obtained, on application at this
acres of Crown lands. The census for 1878 gives a office.
population of 718 people for the Ormondville and Terms of Sale: One-fourth of the purchase-money
Norsewood Districts.
to be paid at time of sale, and the balance, with Crown-
The Crown lands in the locality will be placed in grant fees, within one month thereafter.
the market at an early date.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand
during the Month of July, 1880.

RETURN of the Number of Births, with the actual Mortality of Males and Females, and the Proportion of Deaths to
Population, in the under-mentioned Boroughs, during the Month of July, 1880.

DEATHS REGISTERED IN JULY, 1880.

BOROUGHS.	POPULA- TION.	TOTAL BIRTHS.	Males.	Females.	Total Deaths.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population.
			Under 1 Year.	1 & under 5 Years.	5 Years and over.	Under 1 Year.
Auckland	15,022	57	5	3	8	1
Wellington	21,582	92	5	3	7	2
Christchurch	15,156	66	2	2	9	4
Dunedin	23,959	83	5	2	13	4
Thames	5,814	20	...	...	1	...
Napier	6,650	27	2	...	1	...
Wanganui	4,163	23	2	...	4	...
Nelson	6,804	21	1	...	8	...
Sydenham	7,796	35	5	...	1	...
Lyttelton	3,653	17	1	...	...	...
Timaru	3,791	28	4	...	1	...
Oamaru	5,098	26	1	...	2	...
Hokitika	2,668	16	1	...	1	...
Caversham	3,786	12	2	1	2	...
Invercargill	4,283	22	2	1	1	...
Totals	...	545	37	10	57	25

The deaths of persons not residents of the boroughs, occurring at hospitals, have been excluded in all cases.
POPULATION. -In the case of Nelson the population is given according to the estimate for January, 1879, as the local
authorities have not yet supplied the information necessary to enable the estimate to be corrected. In the other cases the
estimates are for the 1st January, 1880.
The total births in the above boroughs amounted to 545, against 498 in June, being an increase of 47. The deaths
amounted to 167 in July, an increase of 20 on the number in June.
Of the above deaths, males contributed 104; females, 63. 79 of the deaths were of children under five years of age, being
47.31 per cent. of the whole number; 62 of these were of children under one year of age.

THE following Table shows the Causes of the Deaths of Persons of both Sexes under 5 years of age and 5 years and
upwards, and the Proportions per Cent. of Deaths from each cause in the Boroughs of Auckland, Wellington, Christ-
church, and Dunedin that were registered during the Month of July, 1880.

CLASSES.	CAUSES OF DEATH.	AUCKLAND.		WELLINGTON.		CHRISTCHURCH.		DUNEDIN.		TOTAL.	PROPORTIONS PER CENT.
		Under 5 Years	5 Years. & over.	Under 5 Years	5 Years. & over.	Under 5 Years	5 Years. & over.	Under 5 Years	5 Years. & over.
I.	Zymotic Diseases	4	6	2	1	2	3	1	2	12	11.76
II.	Constitutional Diseases	2	7	...	2	1	5	2	3	23	22.55
III.	Local Diseases	4	5	6	2	3	8	3	11	46	45.10
IV.	Developmental Diseases	1	...	7	1	1	...	1	7	19	18.63
V.	Violent Deaths	...	...	...	1	...	...	...	...	1	0.98
VI.	Unspecified	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	1	1	0.98
	Totals ...	11	14	17	10	6	15	11	18	102	100.00

CLASS I.-ZYMOTIC DISEASES.

AUCKLAND.	WELLINGTON.	CHRISTCHURCH.	DUNEDIN.	TOTAL.
ORDER 1:-- Miasmatic Diseases,-
Diphtheria	...	...	1	...
Croup	...	...	...	1
Whooping Cough	...	1	...	...
Enteric or Typhoid Fever	...	1	...	1
Dysentery	...	...	...	...
Diarrhea	2	...	...	...
Rheumatism	...	...	...	...
ORDER 2:-- Enthetic Diseases,-
Stricture of the Urethra	...	...	...	...
ORDER 3:-- Dietic Diseases,-
Inanition of Infancy	...	...	1	...
Alcoholism	...	...	...	...
ORDER 4:-- Parasitic Diseases,-
Worms	...	...	...	1