New Zealand Gazette – 1899 – No. 42

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✨ Vital Statistics Report

MAY 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 965

Vital Statistics, April, 1899.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL’S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the month of April, 1899:—

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 April, 1899.

BOROUGHS.	Population of Principal Boroughs, with all their Suburbs. Census, April, 1896.	ESTIMATED POPULATION, JANUARY, 1899.	TOTAL BIRTHS IN BOROUGHS.	DEATHS IN BOROUGHS REGISTERED IN APRIL, 1899.						Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population, April, 1899.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Mean Population in the Year 1898.
				Males.			Females.
				Under 1 Year.	1&under 5 Years.	5 Years and over.	Under 1 Year.	1&under 5 Years.	5 Years and over.	Total Deaths.
Auckland ..		*35,670	79	9	4	9	11	..	11	44	1·23
Birkenhead ..		749	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Devonport ..		3,320	13	..	..	..	1	1	1	3	0·90
Newmarket ..		2,106	2	..	..	..	1	..	..	1	0·47
Newton ..		3,049	6	3	..	..	..	..	..	3	0·98
Parnell ..		4,327	8	1	..	..	3	..	..	4	0·92
Other suburbs ..		†	†	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals Auckland and suburban boroughs	..	49,221	108	13	4	9	16	1	12	55	1·12
Wellington ..		42,512	85	6	1	23	4	1	5	40	0·94
Karori ..		1,050	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Melrose ..		2,295	8	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	0·44
Onslow ..		1,350	1	..	..	1	1	..	..	2	1·48
Totals Wellington and suburbs	..	47,207	96	6	1	25	5	1	5	43	0·91
Christchurch ..		18,085	21	4	1	4	2	..	4	15	0·83
Linwood ..		6,553	15	2	..	4	..	..	2	8	1·22
St. Albans ..		6,500	9	..	..	4	..	1	1	6	0·92
Sydenham ..		10,987	26	2	..	2	..	1	2	7	0·64
Woolston ..		2,274	5	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Other suburbs ..		†	†	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals Christchurch and suburban boroughs	..	44,399	76	8	1	14	2	2	9	36	0·81
Dunedin ..		23,500	44	2	1	5	6	..	5	19	0·81
Caversham ..		4,830	4	2	..	2	1	1	3	9	1·86
Maori Hill ..		1,608	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	0·62
Mornington ..		3,825	4	1	..	2	..	..	..	3	0·78
North-east Valley ..		3,575	5	..	..	..	..	..	2	2	0·56
Roslyn ..		4,329	6	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Kilda ..		1,359	5	..	..	..	..	..	2	2	1·47
South Dunedin ..		5,066	6	1	1	1	..	1	2	6	1·18
West Harbour ..		1,400	3	..	..	1	..	..	1	2	1·43
Totals Dunedin and suburbs	..	49,492	70	7	2	11	7	2	15	44	0·89

Subject to revision; no data for calculation supplied. † 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 350, against 414 in March—a decrease of 64. The deaths in April were 178—a decrease of 18 on the number in March. Of the total deaths, males contributed 101, females 77. Seventy-eight of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 43·82 per cent. of the whole number; 64 of these were under 1 year of age.

There were 28 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards: Five men, 66 (two), 68, 69, 81, and two women, 67, 77, died at Auckland; two men, 76, 77, at Wellington; six men, 65, 68 (four), 79, and two women, 65, 75, at Christchurch; and four men, 72, 76, 80, 84, and seven women, 65, 67, 73 (two), 77, 80, 81, 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 April, 1899.

CLASS.	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.	5 Years & over.
I.	Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases	8	1	5	2	3	4	11	7	41	23·03
II.	Parasitic Diseases	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
III.	Dietetic Diseases	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	0·56
IV.	Constitutional Diseases	1	7	1	9	..	5	..	4	27	15·17
V.	Developmental Diseases	2	..	2	2	1	..	2	5	14	7·87
VI.	Local Diseases	16	10	3	11	4	14	5	10	73	41·01
VII.	Violence	..	3	1	6	..	..	..	..	10	5·62
VIII.	Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes	6	..	1	..	5	..	..	..	12	6·74
	Totals	34	21	13	30	13	23	18	26	178	100·00