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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Vital Statistics, October, 1897.
[No. 97

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the
month of October, 1897:-

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, 1897.

                                  DEATHS IN BOROUGHS REGISTERED IN OCTOBER, 1897.

BOROUGHS. Population of
Principal Boroughs
with all their
Suburbs, Census,
April, 1896.
POPULATION,
CENSUS, APRIL, 1896.
TOTAL BIRTHS
IN BOROUGHS.
Males. Females.
Under
1 Year.
1 & under
5 Years,
5 Years
andover.
Under
1 Year.
1 & under
5 Years.
5 Years
and over.
Total Deaths.
Proportion
of Deaths
to the 1,000
Population,
October,
1897.
Proportion of Deaths
to the 1,000 of Popu-
lation in the Year
1896.

Auckland 31,424 90 1 1 10 2 2 6 22 0-70 14.42
Birkenhead 690 1 5.80
Devonport 3,010 2 1 2 1.00 12-29
Newmarket 1,929 2 1 1 11.40
Newton 2,379 3 1 1 0.84 4.20
Parnell 4,196 4 2 2 0.48 10-96
Other suburbs *
Totals Auckland
and suburban
boroughs 43,628 102 1 1 13 2 2 10 29 0-66 13-12

Wellington 37,441 96 7 1 18 2 11 39 1.04 11-59
Karori 1,024 1-95
Melrose 2,044 7 9.30
Onslow 1,249 1 1 1 0.80 2-40
Totals Wellington
and suburbs 41,758 104 7 1 19 2 11 40 0.96 10-97

Christchurch 16,964 35 2 10 1 1 6 18 1.06 11-49
Linwood 6,115 16 1 10 1.64 10-47
St. Albans 5,781 11 1 1 1 4 4 0.69 8-99
Sydenham 10,312 22 1 1 2 5 0.48 12-02
Woolston 2,057 3 10.70
Other suburbs *
Totals Christchurch
and suburban
boroughs 41,229 87 4 17 2 1 13 37 0.90 11.08

Dunedin 22,815 34 3 11 2 16 32 1.40 9-60
Caversham 4,763 11 2 2 4 0.84 14-91
Maori Hill 1,483 3 2 2 1.35 4-72
Mornington 3,584 5 1 1 3 0.84 7-25
North-east Valley 3,374 5 1 1 0-30 7-71
Roslyn 4,118 9 2 2 4 0-97 5-83
St. Kilda 1,185 6 5.06
South Dunedin 4,592 8 1 3 4 0.87 9-58
West Harbour 1,366 5.86
Totals Dunedin
and suburbs 47,280 81 3 21 2 1 23 50 1.06 9-12

• 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 374, against 377 in September, a decrease of 3. The deaths in
October were 156, an increase of 2 on the number in September. Of the total deaths, males contributed 87, females 69.
Twenty-nine of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 18-59 per cent. of the whole number; 23 of these
were under 1 year of age. There were 32 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards: five men, 69, 73, 76, 77, 82, died
at Auckland; three men, 70, 72, 74, and one woman, 72, at Wellington; five men, 69, 71, 75, 76, 83, and seven women, 65,
66, 67, 71, 78, 80, 83, at Christchurch; and eight men, 65 (two), 66, 67 (two), 73, 79, 86, and three women, 65 (two), 68,
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 Proportion per Cent. of Deaths from each Cause, in the Boroughs above given, registered
during the Month of October, 1897.

CLANNEN,
CAUSES OF DEATH.
AUCKLAND
AND SUBURBAN
BOROUGHS.
Under 5 Years
5 Years. & over.
WELLINGTON
AND SUBURBAN
BOROUGHS.
Under 5 Years
5 Years. & over.
CHRISTCHURCH
AND SUBURBAN
BOROUGHS.
Under
5 Years
5 Years. & over.
DUNEDIN
AND SUBURBAN
BOROUGHS.
Under
5 Years
5 Years. & over.
TOTAL.
PROPOR-
TIONS
PER CENT

I. Specific Febrile or Zy-
motic Diseases 3 1 1 2 1 8 5-13
II. Parasitic Diseases
III. Dietetic Diseases
IV. Constitutional Diseases 6 2 6 7 16 37 23-72
V. Developmental Diseases 1 1 1 2 1 8 5-13
VI. Local Diseases 3 10 5 21 3 18 3 24 87 55-77
VII. Violence 1 1 1 1 2 13 8-33
VIII. Ill-defined and Not-
specified Causes 2 1 3 1-92
Totals 6 23 10 30 7 30 6 44 156 100-00