New Zealand Gazette – 1894 – No. 82

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✨ Vital Statistics



1684 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 82

Vital Statistics, October, 1894.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the Month of October, 1894:

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, 1894.

BOROUGHS.

Auckland ..
Birkenhead ..
Devonport ..
Newmarket ..
Newton ..
Parnell ..
Other suburbs ..

Totals Auckland and suburban boroughs

Wellington ..
Karori ..
Melrose ..
Onslow ..

Totals Wellington and suburbs

Christchurch ..
Linwood ..
St. Albans ..
Sydenham ..
Woolston ..
Other suburbs ..

Totals Christchurch and suburban boroughs

Dunedin ..
Caversham ..
Maori Hill ..
Mornington ..
North-east Valley ..
Roslyn ..
St. Kilda ..
South Dunedin ..
West Harbour ..

Totals Dunedin and suburbs

  • The remaining suburbs do not lie within borough boundaries, and particulars respecting them have not been obtained for the Vital Statistics.

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 400, against 321 in September, an increase of 79. The deaths in October were 152, a decrease of 3 on the number in September. Of the total deaths, males contributed 82; females, 70. Thirty-two of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 21.05 per cent. of the whole number: 24 of these were under 1 year of age. There were 26 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards: Four men of 72 (two), 75, and 80, and three women of 66, 68, and 86, died at Auckland; five men of 66, 71, 79 and 84 (two), and one woman of 69, at Wellington; two men of 67 and 78, and two women of 75 and 84, at Christchurch; eight men of 68 (two), 70, 73, 76, 80, 82, and 88, and one woman of 75, at Dunedin.

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 above given registered during the Month of October, 1894.

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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