New Zealand Gazette – 1896 – No. 64

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✨ Vital Statistics Report

Aug. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1329

Vital Statistics, July, 1896.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the month of July, 1896:

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 July, 1896.

Boroughs.	Population of	POPULATION,	TOTAL BIRTHS	DEATHS IN BOROUGHS REGISTERED IN JULY, 1896.	Proportion of Deathsto the 1,000 of Population,July, 1896.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population in the Year 1895.
	Principal Boroughs,with all theirsuburbs, Census,April, 1891.	CENSUS, APRIL, 1896.	IN BOROUGHS.	Males.	Females.	TotalDeaths.
				Under1 Year.	1 & under5 Years.	5 Yearsand over.
Auckland	31,424		61	3	1	23
Birkenhead	690			...	...	...
Devonport	3,010		8	...	...	1
Newmarket	1,929		11	...	...	2
Newton	2,379			...	...	...
Parnell	4,196		11	1	2	1
Other suburbs	*			...	...	...
Totals Auckland and suburban boroughs	43,628		91	4	3	27
Wellington	37,441		87	2	1	10
Karori	1,024		2	...	...	...
Melrose	2,044		4	...	...	...
Onslow	1,249		4	...	...	...
Totals Wellington and suburbs	41,758		97	2	1	10
Christchurch	16,964		32	1	...	10
Linwood	6,115		13	...	...	1
St. Albans	5,781		14	...	...	3
Sydenham	10,312		28	2	...	5
Woolston	2,057		4	...	...	...
Other suburbs	*			...	...	...
Totals Christchurch and suburban boroughs	41,229		91	3	...	19
Dunedin	22,815		51	3	...	11
Caversham	4,763		5	...	...	5
Maori Hill	1,483		2	...	...	...
Mornington	3,584		6	...	...	1
North-east Valley	3,374		6	...	...	1
Roslyn	4,118		4	...	...	...
St. Kilda	1,185		3	...	...	2
South Dunedin	4,592		18	...	...	2
West Harbour	1,366		1	...	...	...
Totals Dunedin and suburbs	47,280		96	5	...	22

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 place.

The total births in the above boroughs amounted to 375, against 392 in June, a decrease of 17. The deaths July were 171, an increase of 24 on the number in June. Of the total deaths, males contributed 96; females, 75 Forty-six of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 26·90 per cent. of the whole number; 36 of these were under 1 year of age. There were 41 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards: five men, 69 (two), 70, 74, 75, and three women, 71, 85, 96, died at Auckland; four men, 68, 73, 75, 81, and three women, 74, 75, 87, at Wellington; seven men, 65 (two), 68, 70 (two), 73, 79, and one woman, 79, at Christchurch; and twelve men, 65 (two), 66, 67, 71 (three), 73. 74 (three), 86, and six women, 71, 79, 81, 82, 89, 96, 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 July, 1896.

CAUSES OF DEATH.	AUCKLAND AND SUBURBAN BOROUGHS.	WELLINGTON AND SUBURBAN BOROUGHS.	CHRISTCHURCH AND SUBURBAN BOROUGHS.	DUNEDIN AND SUBURBAN BOROUGHS.	TOTAL.	PROPORTIONS PER CENT
Under 5 Years.	5 Years & over.	Under 5 Years.	5 Years & over.	Under 5 Years.	5 Years & over.	Under 5 Years.
I. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases	2	2	1	2	2	9
II. Parasitic Diseases	...	...	...	...	...	...
III. Dietetic Diseases	...	...	...	...	...	...
IV. Constitutional Diseases	14	...	9	...	9	14
V. Developmental Diseases	4	1	1	2	2	3
VI. Local Diseases	11	15	6	10	4	5
VII. Violence	...	3	...	1	1	...
VIII. Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes	1	1	...	2	...	...
Totals	16	36	9	20	8	13