New Zealand Gazette – 1888 – No. 31

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✨ Vital Statistics Report

624 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 31

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the Month of April, 1888.

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 April, 1888.

Auckland
Wellington
Christchurch
Dunedin
Thames
New Plymouth
Napier
Wanganui
Blenheim
Nelson
Sydenham
Lyttelton
Timaru
Oamaru
Greymouth
Hokitika
Caversham
Invercargill
Totals

The deaths of persons not residents of the boroughs, occurring at hospitals, have been excluded in all cases.
The total births in the above boroughs amounted to 462, against 441 in March, an increase of 21. The deaths in April were 197, an increase of 52 on the number for March. Of the total deaths, males contributed 111; females, 86. Seventy-one of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 36·04 per cent. of the whole number; 54 of these were under 1 year of age.

The population for Auckland is that estimated for the 1st January, 1887. The information supplied as to the number of inhabited houses in January of the present year is not sufficiently accurate to be used in calculating population. The figures for 1887 are believed to be in excess of the actual fact. It has been deemed unsafe to give any death-rate, as the proportion could not be relied upon.

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, Christchurch, and Dunedin, that were registered during the Month of April, 1888.

I. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases
II. Parasitic Diseases
III. Dietetic Diseases
IV. Constitutional Diseases
V. Developmental Diseases
VI. Local Diseases
VII. Violence
VIII. Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes
Totals

CLASS I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.

ORDER 1:—
Miasmatic,—
Whooping-cough
Diphtheria
Gastric Fever
Enteric Fever; Typhoid

ORDER 2:—
Diarrhœal,—
Diarrhœa

ORDER 5:—
Venereal,—
Syphilis
Stricture of Urethra

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1888, No 31

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

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🏥 Vital Statistics Report

Domain🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Dated1 April 1888
KeywordsVital Statistics, Births, Deaths, Boroughs, Population, Causes of Death
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