New Zealand Gazette – 1891 – No. 37

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✨ Vital Statistics Report



May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 567

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the Month of April, 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 April, 1891.

Boroughs. POPULATION, APRIL, 1891. (Subject to revision.) TOTAL BIRTHS. Males. Females. Total Deaths. Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population, April, 1891. Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population in the Year 1890. (Corrected by Census returns.)
Under 1 Year. 1 & under 5 Years. 5 Years and over. Under 1 Year. 1 & under 5 Years. 5 Years and over.
Auckland* 30,006 61 6 2 13 3 1
Wellington* 30,955 106 6 .. 14 5 1
Christchurch* 14,885 39 1 2 4 1 ..
Dunedin* 22,339 50 7 2 9 8 1
Thames 4,662 13 .. .. 1 2 ..
New Plymouth 3,360 10 1 1 1 .. ..
Napier 8,368 33 2 1 3 1 1
Wanganui 5,017 10 .. .. .. 1 ..
Blenheim 3,301 8 .. .. .. 1 ..
Nelson 6,683 15 .. .. 4 1 ..
Sydenham 9,680 28 2 .. .. 2 1
Lyttelton 4,091 8 1 1 .. .. ..
Timaru 3,668 11 1 .. .. 3 ..
Oamaru 5,613 8 1 .. 4 .. ..
Greymouth 3,813 8 .. .. 1 .. 1
Hokitika 2,186 5 2 .. 5 .. 1
Caversham 4,685 13 2 1 3 .. ..
Invercargill* 4,950 7 .. .. 1 .. ..
Totals .. 433 32 10 65 27 7
  • The figures given represent the population within the several borough boundaries exclusive of the suburban population.

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 433, against 365 in March, an increase of 68. The deaths in April were 179, an increase of 31 on the number in March. Of the total deaths, males contributed 107; females, 72. Seventy-six of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 42·46 per cent. of the whole number; 59 of these were under 1 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, Christchurch, and Dunedin, that were registered during the Month of April, 1891.

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
I. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases 5 3 1 4 1 ..
II. Parasitic Diseases .. .. .. .. .. ..
III. Dietetic Diseases .. .. .. .. .. ..
IV. Constitutional Diseases .. 11 2 5 .. ..
V. Developmental Diseases .. 2 3 .. .. 1
VI. Local Diseases .. 5 7 5 10 1
VII. Violence .. .. .. .. 1 1
VIII. Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes 2 .. 1 .. 1 ..
Totals 12 23 12 20 4 6

CLASS I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.

ORDER 1:—

Miasmatic,

Whooping-cough..

Typhoid Fever ..

ORDER 2:—

Diarrhoeal,—

Cholera Infantum

Diarrhoea

Dysentery

CLASS IV.—CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.

Rheumatism

Cancer ..

Tubercular Peritonitis, Tabes Mesenterica

Tubercular Meningitis

Phthisis

Diabetes



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21 May 1891
Vital Statistics, Births, Deaths, Population, Boroughs, Mortality

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Boroughs, Population, Births, Deaths, Mortality Rates, 1891

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