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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 17

Comparison of the deaths for each city shows,—

Zymotic, &c., Diseases.
Auckland.
1902. 1903.
Diarrhoeal Diseases .. 67 42 .. Wellington.
1902. 1903.
19 22 .. Christchurch.
1902. 1903.
31 10 .. Dunedin.
1902. 1903.
8 4
Influenza .. .. 10 4 .. 9 2 .. 3 2 .. 7 7
Typhoid Fever .. .. 10 8 .. 3 5 .. 2 2 .. 2 1
Measles .. .. 40 6 .. 49 3 .. .. 17 .. 3 2
Scarlet Fever .. .. 1 2 .. 1 6 .. 5 12 .. 4 30
Bubonic Plague .. .. 3 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Diphtheria .. .. 12 .. .. .. 2 .. 2 .. .. 5 3
Whooping-cough .. .. 18 17 .. 17 5 .. 1 7 .. 2 ..
Other Zymotic Diseases .. 4 7 .. 10 7 .. 4 8 .. 4 13

Parasitic Diseases.—Hydatids were fatal at Wellington (1 death), and worms at Auckland (1 death).

Dietetic Diseases.—These numbered 34, 7 being due to want of breast-milk, or malnutrition, 26 to alcoholism and delirium tremens, and 1 to exposure.

Constitutional Diseases.—The deaths at the four towns numbered 488 in 1903. The first in importance of these diseases, and of all causes of death, is tubercle. The figures for 1903 and 1902 show 250 and 254 deaths for each year respectively.

Phthisis and other Tubercular Diseases.—

1902. Phthisis. Other Tubercular Diseases.
      Auckland .. .. .. 42 .. 11 ..
      Wellington .. .. 49 .. 19 ..
      Christchurch .. .. 57 .. 12 ..
      Dunedin .. .. .. 44 .. 20 ..
      — —
      192 .. 62 ..

1903. Phthisis. Other Tubercular Diseases.
      38 .. 24
      46 .. 12
      37 .. 11
      53 .. 29
      — —
      174 .. 76

The mortality from tubercular diseases for 1903 is 9·90 per cent. of the total deaths at the four boroughs and their suburbs from all causes.

Deaths from cancer rose at the chief towns from 165 in 1902 to 179 in 1903. The latter number is 7·09 per cent. of deaths for the year from all causes.

The number of deaths from cancer at the four chief towns and their suburbs for each of the last five years was as under :—

1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. Auckland and suburbs .. .. 40 .. 32 .. 32 .. 44 .. 37
                              Wellington " .. .. 27 .. 36 .. 38 .. 37 .. 47
                              Christchurch " .. .. 40 .. 32 .. 41 .. 25 .. 33
                              Dunedin " .. .. 44 .. 45 .. 43 .. 59 .. 62
                              — — — — —
                              151 .. 145 .. 154 .. 165 .. 179

Diabetes shows 25 deaths in 1903 against 26 in 1902.

Developmental Diseases.—There were 258 deaths in this class, of which 87 were from premature births, 151 from old age, and 20 from other causes.

Local Diseases.—Deaths in this class were 1 more than in 1902, the figures being 1,267 against 1,266. Diseases of the nervous system were the most fatal of this class, amounting to 295; this number includes 100 deaths from apoplexy, 38 from convulsions, and 34 from paralysis. Diseases of the respiratory system show 275 deaths for 1903, or nearly one-fourth of the whole mortality in the class, against 337 in the former year. Bronchitis, pneumonia, congestion of the lungs, pleurisy, and allied diseases form this group.

Under the head of “Diseases of the Digestive System” there were 258 deaths at the four centres, including 95 from enteritis; peritonitis, 18; gastritis, 21; cirrhosis of liver, 21; jaundice and liver disease, 26; and dentition, 5.

Diseases of the urinary system caused 102 deaths. The remaining deaths were—4 disease of organs of special sense, 258 of organs of the circulatory, 14 of the lymphatic, 44 of the reproductive systems, 8 of the organs of locomotion, and 9 of the integumentary system.

Violent Deaths.—There were 121 violent deaths, 94 of which were classed as accidental. Ten of these latter were caused by fractures, and 15 by falls. In 14 cases deaths resulted from the deceased being run over by a cart, tram, train, &c. Eleven deaths were from burns or scalds, 14 by drowning, 9 by suffocation, 5 by poisoning, 1 by misadventure with chloroform; besides 7 from accident at birth, and 8 others.

Three deaths were classified as murder or manslaughter. Of 24 suicides, 7 were by shooting, 4 by cutting throat, 6 by poison, 3 by hanging, and 4 by drowning.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1904.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 23rd February, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that, the leases of the undermentioned lands having been forfeited by resolution of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.