New Zealand Gazette – 1900 – No. 5

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✨ Vital Statistics

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

Vital Statistics, December, 1899.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the month of December, 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 December, 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 DECEMBER, 1899.							Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population, December, 1899.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Mean Population in the Year 1898.
				Males.			Females.			Total Deaths.
				Under 1 Year.	1& under 5 Years.	5 Years and over.	Under 1 Year.	1& under 5 Years.	5 Years and over.
Auckland ..		38,100	65	2	1	22	3	..	18	46	1·21	13·73
Birkenhead		749	3	..	..	1	..	..	1	2	2·67	6·68
Devonport		3,820	9	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	0·30	11·34
Newmarket		2,106	4	..	..	..	1	..	1	2	0·95	9·65
Grey Lynn		3,049	3	..	1	..	1	..	1	3	0·98	11·37
Parnell ..		4,327	5	2	..	1	..	..	2	5	1·16	9·80
Other suburbs		*	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals Auckland and suburban boroughs	..	51,651	89	4	2	25	5	..	23	59	1·14	12·80
Wellington ..		42,512	85	8	2	15	4	3	27	59	1·39	12·51
Karori		1,050	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	6·70
Melrose		2,295	4	1	..	3	..	..	2	6	2·61	7·98
Onslow		1,350	4	1	..	1	..	..	..	2	1·48	6·01
Totals Wellington and suburbs	..	47,207	96	10	2	19	4	3	29	67	1·42	11·97
Christchurch		18,085	36	..	1	8	..	1	5	15	0·83	10·87
Linwood ..		6,553	14	..	..	2	..	..	2	4	0·61	12·25
St. Albans		6,500	9	..	1	1	..	2	..	4	0·62	8·93
Sydenham		10,987	25	1	1	..	1	..	2	5	0·46	9·99
Woolston ..		2,274	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	0·44	11·99
Other suburbs		*	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals Christchurch and suburban boroughs	..	44,399	85	1	3	11	1	3	10	29	0·65	10·63
Dunedin ..		23,500	30	2	..	14	..	..	12	28	1·19	12·73
Caversham		4,830	13	..	..	9	1	..	5	15	3·11	20·71
Maori Hill		1,608	3	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	0·62	6·34
Mornington		3,825	8	..	..	2	..	..	2	4	1·05	8·15
North-east Valley		3,575	4	..	..	..	..	..	3	3	0·84	8·74
Roslyn		4,329	7	..	1	2	..	..	1	4	0·92	7·49
St. Kilda ..		1,359	4	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	0·74	10·55
South Dunedin		5,066	18	2	..	1	..	..	2	5	0·99	8·95
West Harbour		1,400	6	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	0·71	8·58
Totals Dunedin and suburbs	..	49,492	93	4	1	29	1	..	27	62	1·25	11·65

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 363, against 357 in November—an increase of 6. The deaths in December were 217—an increase of 43 on the number in November. Of the total deaths, males contributed 111, females 106. Forty-four of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 20·28 per cent. of the whole number; 30 of these were under 1 year of age.

There were 63 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards: Seven men, 67, 70, 71, 77, 78, 79, 82, and six women, 65, 70, 71, 80, 82, 85, died at Auckland; five men, 67, 69 (two), 75, 77, and eleven women, 66 (three), 67, 70 (two), 72, 79, 80, 81, 88, at Wellington; two men, 76, 77, and four women, 67, 71, 76, 77, at Christchurch; twelve men, 65 (two), 66 (two), 67 (two), 69 (two), 71, 74, 78, 79, and sixteen women, 65, 66, 67, 68 (three), 69, 71, 72, 77, 79, 80 (three), 85, 97, 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 December, 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	4	8	8	3	4	3	2	13	45	20·74
II.	Parasitic Diseases ..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	2	0·92
III.	Dietetic Diseases ..	..	1	1	1	..	..	..	1	4	1·84
IV.	Constitutional Diseases	..	10	..	10	1	1	..	17	39	17·97
V.	Developmental Diseases	1	2	4	..	..	2	..	4	13	5·99
VI.	Local Diseases ..	5	23	4	32	3	11	3	21	102	47·01
VII.	Violence ..	1	3	..	1	..	3	..	..	8	3·69
VIII.	Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes	..	..	2	..	..	1	1	..	4	1·84
	Totals ..	11	48	19	48	8	21	6	56	217	100·00