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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28
REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the Month of March, 1891.
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 March, 1891.
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
NOTE.—Deaths, occurring at hospitals, of persons not residents of the borough in which the hospital is situated are allotted to the borough where the diseases were contracted, and not to that in which the deaths actually took place.
The total births in the above boroughs amounted to 365, against 353 in February, an increase of 12. The deaths in March were 148, a decrease of 49 on the number in February. Of the total deaths, males contributed 83; females, 65. Sixty-four of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 43·24 per cent. of the whole number; 55 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...
Wellington Borough ...
Suburbs ...
Total Wellington Borough and suburbs ...
Christchurch Borough ...
Adjacent boroughs and other suburbs...
Total Christchurch Borough and suburbs ...
Dunedin Borough ...
Adjacent boroughs ...
Total Dunedin Borough and suburbs ...
The population of Invercargill and suburbs at same date was—
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 March, 1891.
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, Births, Deaths, Population, Boroughs, March 1891
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