New Zealand Gazette – 1898 – No. 18

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✨ Vital Statistics Report

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 18

Vital Statistics, February, 1898.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the month of February, 1898:

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 February, 1898.

Boroughs.	Population of Principal Boroughs with all their Suburbs, Census, April, 1896.	ESTIMATED POPULATION, JANUARY, 1898.	TOTAL BIRTHS IN BOROUGHS.	Deaths in Boroughs Registered in February, 1898.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population, February, 1898.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Mean Population in the Year 1897.
				Males.	Females.
				Under 1 Year.	1 & under 5 Years.	5 Years and over.
Auckland	32,274	66	13	13	8
Birkenhead	720
Devonport	3,205	3	3	2
Newmarket	2,041	2	2	1
Newton	2,580	8		1	1
Parnell	4,233	9	1
Other suburbs
Totals Auckland and suburban boroughs	45,053	88	19	17	9
Wellington	40,220	53	5	3	11	2
Karori	1,038
Melrose	2,220	3	2
Onslow	1,313	3
Totals Wellington and suburbs	44,791	59	7	3	11	2
Christchurch	17,257	37	1	2	4	1
Linwood	6,348	12		2
St. Albans	6,265	12	3		1
Sydenham	10,630	24		4	3	1
Woolston	2,228	7	1
Other suburbs
Totals Christchurch and suburban boroughs	42,728	92	5	8	8	2
Dunedin	28,323	30	1	7
Caversham	4,829	12		4
Maori Hill	1,548	5		1
Mornington	3,787	8
North-east Valley	3,515	7		2
Roslyn	4,219	5		1
St. Kilda	1,294	2	1
South Dunedin	4,762	10		2
West Harbour	1,395	2
Totals Dunedin and suburbs	48,672	81	2	17	1

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 320, against 395 in January, a decrease of 75. The deaths in February were 156, a decrease of 58 on the number in January. Of the total deaths, males contributed 89, females 67. Fifty-eight of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 37·18 per cent. of the whole number; 53 of these were under 1 year of age. There were 40 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards: Five men, 67, 74, 75, 77, 78, and five women, 65, 68, 69, 83 (two), died at Auckland; six men, 66, 68, 76, 79, 82, 86, and seven women, 68, 69, 77, 78, 83, 91, 97, at Wellington; three men, 70, 78, 88, and five women, 66, 75, 77, 78, 87, at Christchurch; and seven men, 65 (three), 70, 74, 77, 92, and two women, 67, 84, 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 February, 1898.

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.
I. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases	14	7	8	7	3
II. Parasitic Diseases
III. Dietetic Diseases	1	1	1
IV. Constitutional Diseases		5	1	2	6
V. Developmental Diseases	1	3		3	2	2
VI. Local Diseases	12	9	1	9	3	6
VII. Violence		2		1	1	1
VIII. Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes				1	4	1
Totals	28	27	12	22	15	19