New Zealand Gazette – 1894 – No. 91

Page 1911

✨ Vital Statistics



Dec. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1911

Vital Statistics, November, 1894.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the Month of November, 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 November, 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 343, against 400 in October, a decrease of 57. The deaths in November were 130, a decrease of 22 on the number in October. Of the total deaths, males contributed 80; females, 50. Thirty-nine of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 30.00 per cent. of the whole number: 27 of these were under 1 year of age. There were 26 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards: Seven men of 65, 71, 75 (two), 79, 86, and 87, and three women of 78, 81, and 85, died at Auckland; two men of 67 and 74, and one woman of 66, at Wellington; five men of 70, 71, 77, and 79 (two), and three women of 67 (two) and 70, at Christchurch; three men of 65, 73, and 78, and two women of 69 and 74, 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 November, 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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🏥 Vital Statistics Report

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13 December 1894
Vital Statistics, Births, Deaths, Mortality, Boroughs, Population
  • Registrar-General