✨ Statistics, Causes of Death
Sept. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1211
CLASS IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatism
Cancer
Tubercular Meningitis
Phthisis
Tuberculosis
Anaemia
CLASS V.—Developmental Diseases.
Premature Birth
Cyanosis
Old Age
CLASS VI.—Local Diseases.
ORDER 1:—
Diseases of Nervous System,—
Meningitis, Cephalitis
Apoplexy
Softening of Brain
Paralysis
Epilepsy
Infantile Convulsions
ORDER 3:—
Diseases of Circulatory System,—
Disease of Heart
Fatty Degeneration of Heart
Syncope
Aneurism
ORDER 4:—
Diseases of Respiratory System,—
Laryngitis
Bronchitis
Pneumonia
Congestion of Lungs
ORDER 5:—
Diseases of Digestive System,—
Teething
Dyspepsia
Gastric Ulcer
Gastritis
Congestion of Liver
Liver Disease
ORDER 7:—
Diseases of Urinary System,—
Uraemia
Kidney Disease
ORDER 8:—
Diseases of Reproductive System,—
Perimetritis
Puerperal Eclampsia
Childbirth
CLASS VII.—Violence.
ORDER 1:—
Accident or Negligence,—
Concussion of Spinal Cord (fall)
ORDER 3:—
Suicide,—
Shot himself (during temp. insanity)
CLASS VIII.—Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes.
Marasmus, Debility, Inanition
Totals
The following remarks apply only to the four principal boroughs:—
The births in August were 284 against 264 in July, an increase of 20. The deaths in August were 122 against 96
in July, an increase of 26.
There were 16 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards: 7 males of 82, 79, 76, 75, 72 (2), and 68, and 3
females of 84 and 68 (2) died at Auckland; a male of 67 and 2 females of 68 and 67 at Wellington; and 3 females of 86, 70,
and 66 at Dunedin.
Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.—The total number of deaths (13) was not excessive; but diphtheria, from which
there was no mortality in July, is noticed as the cause of 2 deaths, 1 at Christchurch and 1 at Dunedin.
Constitutional Diseases.—Out of a total of 24 deaths, the large number of 13 were from phthisis, against 9 in July and
1 in June.
Local Diseases.—The deaths were 19 in excess of the number from the previous month; but the increased mortality at
the four towns as a whole was rather from diseases of the digestive and urinary system than from diseases connected with
the respiratory system. Bronchitis, however, was fatal in 8 cases at Auckland and 4 at Wellington.
The total mortality at the four chief towns was 122 deaths against 96 in August. The increase is found at Auckland,
caused greatly by bronchitis, and at Wellington and Dunedin from various local diseases.
The subjoined table shows the mortality for the last two months at each of these four boroughs from six principal
specific febrile or zymotic diseases, and also the deaths from certain inflammatory diseases of the lungs. These
causes of death have been distinguished from the others of the classes to which they belong, as being the most important
special diseases which give rise to sudden increases in the death-rates of towns, and the prevalence of which is closely
connected with sanitary condition and climatic influence of the season on health.
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NZ Gazette 1887, No 59
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