New Zealand Gazette – 1905 – No. 68

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✨ Vital Statistics

JULY 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1733

Vital Statistics.

REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S Report on the Vital Statistics of the Principal Towns of New Zealand during the Month of June, 1905:—

RETURN of the Number of Births, with the Actual Mortality of Males and Females, and the Proportion of Deaths to Population, in the undermentioned Boroughs, during the Month of June, 1905.

BOROUGHS.	ESTIMATED POPULATION, JANUARY, 1905.	TOTAL BIRTHS IN BOROUGHS.	DEATHS IN BOROUGHS REGISTERED IN JUNE, 1905.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Population, June, 1905.	Proportion of Deaths to the 1,000 of Mean Population in the Year 1904.
			Males.
			Under 1 Year.	1 & under 5 Years.	5 Years and over.

Auckland	38,377	104	2	1	17
Birkenhead	1,341	11	..	..	1
Devonport	5,056	12	..	..	1
Newmarket	2,244	7	1	..	..
Grey Lynn	5,417	12	2	..	1
Parnell	5,105	6	1	..	1
Other suburbs*	*	..	..	..	..
Totals Auckland and suburban boroughs*	57,540	152	6	1	20
Wellington	53,900	118	6	..	19
Karori	1,953	7	.	..	..
Onslow	1,810	7	..	..	..
Totals Wellington and suburbs	57,663	132	6	..	19
Christchurch	48,767	111	9	2	17
Woolston	3,004	8	1	..	1
Other suburbs*	*	..	..	..	..
Totals Christchurch and suburban borough*	51,771	119	10	2	18
Dunedin	38,121	78	2	..	13
Maori Hill	1,876	3	..	..	..
Mornington	4,400	12	1	..	..
North-east Valley	4,423	10	..	..	1
Roslyn	5,783	4	..	..	..
St. Kilda	2,738	7	..	..	..
West Harbour	1,597	1	..	..	..
Totals Dunedin and suburbs	58,938	115	3	..	14

The remaining suburbs do not lie within borough boundaries, and particulars respecting them have not been obtained for the Vital Statistics. The total population of Auckland and its suburbs was 67,226 persons, and that of Christchurch with its complete suburbs amounted to 57,041 persons, at the Census of March, 1901.

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 518, against 543 in May—a decrease of 25. The deaths in June were 197, a decrease of 29 on the number in May. Of the total deaths, males contributed 99, females 98. Fifty of the deaths were of children under five years of age, being 25·38 per cent. of the whole number; 43 of these were under one year of age.

There were sixty-three deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards: Nine men, 66 (two), 67 (three), 70, 72, 73, 78, and eight women, 69, 71, 73, 78, 79, 82, 84, 87, died at Auckland; six men, 65, 70, 74, 76 (two), 93, and two women, 67, 80, at Wellington; twelve men, 66 (two), 68 (three), 70 (two), 75 (two), 77 (two), 80, and nine women, 65, 66, 73, 74, 77, 78, 81, 87 (two), at Christchurch; and seven men, 65, 68, 71, 75, 77, 80, 86, and ten women, 65, 68, 69 (two), 72 (two), 73, 77, 83, 87, 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 June, 1905.

CLASS.	CAUSES OF DEATH.	AUCKLAND AND SUBURBAN BOROUGHS.	WELLINGTON AND SUBURBAN BOROUGHS.	CHRISTCHURCH AND SUBURBAN BOROUGH.	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	..	2	1	2	3	..
II.	Parasitic Diseases	..	..	..	..	..	1
III.	Dietetic Diseases	..	..	..	1	..	1
IV.	Constitutional Diseases	1	5	..	6	..	6
V.	Developmental Diseases	3	5	3	3	1	5
VI.	Local Diseases	6	29	5	14	7	24
VI.	Violence	..	3	1	3	1	..
VIII.	Ill-defined and Not-specified Causes	4	..	2	..	7	..
	Totals	14	44	12	29	19	37