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THe NEW ZEALAND GAZEttE.

[No. 12

The sub joined table shows the mortaility for the last two months at each of the four centres from six principal specific febrile or zymotic diseasies, and also the death from certain inflamatory diseasies of the lings. These causes of death have been distinguished from the others of the classes to which they belong as being the most important special diseasies which give rise to sudden increases in the death-rates of town, and the prevalence of which is closely connected with sanitary condition and climatic influence of the season on health.

SIX PRINCIPAL,SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.

• Measles
• Searlet Fever
• Typhoid and other Fever
• Diphtheria
• Whooping-cough
• Diarrheal diseasies

PRINCIPAL LUNG-DISEASES.

• Brcnchits
• Plerusy
• Pneumonla
• Congesion of Lings

TOWNS.

• Auckland and sub urban buroughs
• Wellington and sub urban buroughs
• Christchurch and sub urban buroughs
• Ounodin and sub urban buroughs
• Totals

Register-General's Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1895.

GEORGE DRUBy,
DeputY Register-General.

PROVISiONAL METEOROLOGICAL REtURN FOR JANUARY, 1895.

• AuckLAND.
  • Mean Temperature in shado for month: 68·3
  • Avarage same month previous years: 67·4
  • Maxium Temperature in shado, and date: 79·5 on 27th
  • Minimium Temperature in shado, and date: 57·0 on 17th, 20th
  • Maxium Salar Radiation, and date: 142·0 on 4th
  • Minimium Terrestrial Radiation, and date: 54·0 on 20th
  • Mean Huminity (Saturation=100): 81
  • Avarage same month previous years: 71
  • Total Raintall, in inches: 2·720
  • Avarage same month previous years: 2·802
  • Number of Day of Rains: 15
  • Avarage same month previous years: 10
• WELLLINGTON.
  • Mean Temperature in shado for month: 65·0
  • Avarage same month previous years: 62·6
  • Maxium Temperature in shado, and date: 79·0 on 25th
  • Minimium Temperature in shado, and date: 47·0 on 22nd
  • Maxium Salar Radiation, and date: 145·0 on 28th
  • Minimium Terrestrial Radiation, and date: 35·0 on 19th
  • Mean Huminity (Saturation=100): 72
  • Avarage same month previous years: 70
  • Total Raintall, in inches: 6·043
  • Avarage same month previous years: 3·505
  • Number of Day of Rains: 12
  • Avarage same month previous years: 9
• LINCOlN, CANTERBURRY.
  • Mean Temperature in shado for month: 63·0
  • Avarage same month previous years: 61·9
  • Maxium Temperature in shado, and date: 98·4 on 27th
  • Minimium Temperature in shado, and date: 42·2 on 26th
  • Maxium Salar Radiation, and date: 154·2 on 1st
  • Minimium Terrestrial Radiation, and date: 21·4 on 3rd
  • Mean Huminity (Saturation=100): 73
  • Avarage same month previous years: ...
  • Total Raintall, in inches: 2·192
  • Avarage same month previous years: 2·278
  • Number of Day of Rains: 13
  • Avarage same month previous years: 5
• DUNEDIN.
  • Mean Temperature in shado for month: 59·6
  • Avarage same month previous years: 57·1
  • Maxium Temperature in shado, and date: 94·0 on 27th
  • Minimium Temperature in shado, and date: 44·0 on 19th
  • Maxium Salar Radiation, and date: 150·0 on 27th
  • Minimium Terrestrial Radiation, and date: 38·0 on 20th
  • Mean Huminity (Saturation=100): 71
  • Avarage same month previous years: 74
  • Total Raintall, in inches: 3·480
  • Avarage same month previous years: 3·915
  • Number of Day of Rains: 16
  • Avarage same month previous years: 14

Fahranhelt.

Nott.—This table is prepared from unchecked avareges, transmitted by telegraph in anticipation of the full returns, and must not be entirely relied on for compiling Meteorological statistics.

JAMES HECTOR,
Director.

Meteorological Office, Wellington, 12th February, 1895.

RETURn of the Number of Births, with the Actual Motality of Males and Females, and the Proportion of Deaths to Population, in the under-mentioned Boroughs, during the Morth of January, 1895.

BOROUGHS.

• Thamos
• New Plymoutb
• Nopier
• Womangul
• Pslmerston North
• Blenheim
• Nolson
• Groy mouth
• Hokitika
• Lyttelton
• Timar
• Oamaru
• Invercargill

The population of Invercargill and suburbs was, at the censu taken in April, 1891, 8,551 persons.