New Zealand Gazette – 1890 – No. 51

Page 1041

✨ Vital Statistics Report



Sept. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1041

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the Month of August, 1890.

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 August, 1890.

BOROUGHS.

(For population of principal boroughs, including suburbs, see note *.)

  • 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 417, against 472 in July, a decrease of 55. The deaths in August were 169, an increase of 1 on the number in July. Of the total deaths, males contributed 85; females, 84. Forty of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 23·67 per cent. of the whole number; 27 of these were under 1 year of age.

  • It must be understood that the numbers of the population above given refer only to those within the several borough boundaries. To estimate the relative importance of the principal boroughs as centres of population it is necessary in each case to take into consideration the number of the population in the adjacent boroughs, some of which are included in the above table, and other districts which are practically suburbs of the central borough. This can only be done with any degree of accuracy for census years.
    The populations of the four principal boroughs and their suburbs in 1886 were as follows:—

  • Auckland Borough

  • Adjacent boroughs and road districts

  • Total Auckland Borough and suburbs

  • Christchurch Borough

  • Adjacent boroughs and other suburbs

  • Total Christchurch Borough and suburbs

  • Wellington Borough

  • Suburbs

  • Total Wellington Borough and suburbs

  • Dunedin Borough

  • Adjacent boroughs

  • Total Dunedin Borough and suburbs

  • Invercargill Borough

  • Adjacent boroughs

  • Total Invercargill Borough and suburbs

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 August, 1890.

CAUSES OF DEATH.

  • 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



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🏥 Vital Statistics Report for August 1890

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
25 September 1890
Vital Statistics, Births, Deaths, Boroughs, Population, Mortality
  • Registrar-General