New Zealand Gazette – 1900 – No. 24

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✨ Vital Statistics

658 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 24

Vital Statistics.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the month of February, 1900:—

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, 1900.

BOROUGHS.	ESTIMATED POPULATION, JANUARY, 1900.	TOTAL BIRTHS IN BOROUGHS.	DEATHS IN BOROUGHS REGISTERED IN FEBRUARY, 1900.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population, February, 1900.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Mean Population in the Year 1899.
			Males.	Females.
			Under 1 Year.	1&under 5 Years.	5 Years and over.
Auckland ..	38,400	76	6	..	10
Birkenhead	780	..	..	..	..
Devonport	3,430	4	2	..	1
Newmarket	2,170	5	..	..	..
Grey Lynn	3,331	11	..	..	..
Parnell ..	4,402	6	..	1	1
Other suburbs*	..	..	..	..	..
Totals Auckland and suburban boroughs	52,513	102	8	1	12
Wellington ..	42,966	91	7	..	13
Karori	1,096	1	..	..	..
Melrose	2,400	5	..	..	1
Onslow ..	1,400	1	..	..	..
Totals Wellington and suburbs	47,862	98	7	..	14
Christchurch	18,500	27	3	1	3
Linwood ..	6,707	14	..	..	3
St. Albans	6,440	12	..	..	1
Sydenham	11,388	23	2	..	..
Woolston ..	2,305	5	..	..	3
Other suburbs*	..	..	..	..	..
Totals Christchurch and suburban boroughs	45,340	81	5	1	10
Dunedin ..	29,560	38	3	..	8
Caversham	4,838	7	..	1	3
Maori Hill	1,603	5	..	..	..
Mornington	3,854	9	..	..	..
North-east Valley ..	3,540	5	..	..	1
Roslyn	4,454	9	..	..	3
St. Kilda ..	1,420	3	..	..	..
South Dunedin	5,158	10	1	..	2
West Harbour	1,364	..	..	..	..
Totals Dunedin and suburbs	49,791	86	4	1	17

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 367, against 445 in January—a decrease of 78. The deaths in February were 156—a decrease of 59 on the number in January. Of the total deaths, males contributed 80, females 76. Fifty-four of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 34·62 per cent. of the whole number; 45 of these were under 1 year of age.

There were forty-three deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards: Five men, 68, 70, 79, 81, 83, and five women, 72, 74, 78, 84, 86, died at Auckland; two men, 66, 69, and four women, 70, 71, 73, 86, at Wellington; five men, 71 (two), 75, 78, 80, and nine women, 65, 69, 71 (two), 75, 76, 79, 84, 88, at Christchurch; and ten men, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 76 (two), 82, 90 (two), and three women, 66, 75, 90, 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, 1900.

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.
I.	Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases	7	2	4	2	7	3
II.	Parasitic Diseases	..	..	..	..	..	..
III.	Dietetic Diseases	..	..	1	..	..	..
IV.	Constitutional Diseases	1	8	..	2	..	4
V.	Developmental Diseases	..	2	2	1	2	4
VI.	Local Diseases	9	11	2	14	6	16
VII.	Violence	..	2	..	1	..	..
VIII.	Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes	2	..	..	..	2	1
	Totals	19	25	9	20	17	28