✨ Vital Statistics
Nov. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1653
Vital Statistics, October, 1893.
REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the Month of October, 1893.
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 October, 1893.
Boroughs:
- Population of Principal Boroughs, with their Suburbs, Census, April, 1891
- Estimated Population of Boroughs, 1st January, 1893
- Total Births in Boroughs
- Deaths in Boroughs Registered in October, 1893:
- Males:
- Under 1 Year
- 1 & under 5 Years
- 5 Years and over
- Females:
- Under 1 Year
- 1 & under 5 Years
- 5 Years and over
- Males:
- Total Deaths
- Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population, October, 1893
- Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population in the Year 1892
Auckland
Wellington
Christchurch
Dunedin
Thames
New Plymouth
Napier
Wanganui
Palmerston North
Blenheim
Nelson
Greymouth
Hokitika
Lyttelton
Sydenham
Timaru
Oamaru
Caversham
Invercargill
Totals
Deaths, occurring at hospitals, of persons not residents of the borough wherein the hospital is situated have been allotted in each case to the borough where the disease was contracted, and not to that in which the death actually took place.
The total births in the above boroughs amounted to 391, against 411 in September, a decrease of 20. The deaths in October were 166, a decrease of 56 on the number in September. Of the total deaths, males contributed 95; females, 71. Forty-eight of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 28·92 per cent. of the whole number; 39 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 October, 1893.
Classes of 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
CLASS I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
ORDER 1:—
Measles
Influenza
Whooping-cough
ORDER 2:—
Diarrhoea
ORDER 5:—
Venereal,
Syphilis..
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NZ Gazette 1893, No 88
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🏥 Vital Statistics Report
🏥 Health & Social Welfare17 November 1893
Vital Statistics, Births, Deaths, Population, Boroughs, October 1893
- Registrar-General