New Zealand Gazette – 1892 – No. 98

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 98

Vital Statistics, November, 1892.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the Month of November, 1892.

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 November, 1892.

DEATHS IN BOROUGHS REGISTERED IN NOVEMBER, 1892.

Boroughs	Population	Total Births.	Males.	Females.	Total Deaths.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population, November, 1892.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population in the Year 1891.
		Under 1 Year.	1 & under 5 Years.	5 Years and over.	Under 1 Year.	1 & under 5 Years.	5 Years and over.
Auckland (with suburbs, 51,287)	28,613	64	4	3	10	4	2
Wellington (with suburbs, 34,190)	31,021	61	3	1	13	1	..
Christch'ch (with suburbs, 47,846)	16,223	29	1	..	5	1	..
Dunedin (with suburbs, 45,869)	22,376	42	2	2	6	1	1
Thames	4,618	5	..	3	..	2	..
New Plymouth	3,350	8	..	..	..	..	..
Napier	8,341	33	..	1	6	2	..
Wanganui	5,011	17	..	..	..	..	..
Palmerston North	4,303	13	..	..	..	..	..
Blenheim	3,294	12	..	..	1	1	..
Nelson	6,626	12	2	..	7	..	..
Sydenham	9,680	18	..	..	4	..	..
Lyttelton	4,087	10	..	..	1	..	..
Timaru	3,668	7	..	..	2	..	1
Oamaru	5,621	18	..	..	3	..	..
Greymouth	3,787	5	..	..	1	..	..
Hokitika	2,178	4	..	..	1	..	..
Caversham	4,690	9	..	..	3	2	..
Invercargill (with suburbs, 8,551)	4,950	11	..	..	..	1	..
Totals	..	..	378	12	10	63	15

Note.-Deaths, occurring at hospitals, of persons not residents of the borough wherein the hospital is situated are allotted to the boroughs 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 378, against 391 in October, a decrease of 13. The deaths in November were 152, an increase of 12 on the number in October. Of the total deaths, males contributed 85; females, 67. Forty-one of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 26·97 per cent. of the whole number; 27 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 November, 1892.

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.
I. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases	1	1	..	..	..	..
II. Parasitic Diseases	..	..	..	..	..	..
III. Dietetic Diseases	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Constitutional Diseases	2	4	1	8	..	2
V. Developmental Diseases	5	1	2	..	1	..
VI. Local Diseases	4	10	2	11	..	6
VII. Violence	..	2	..	2	..	..
VIII. Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes	1	..	..	..	1	..
Totals	13	18	5	21	2	8