VITAL STATISTICS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1610, 29 November 1912, Page 5

VITAL STATISTICS.

WELLINGTON'S LOW DEATH KATfI, Detailed particulars of' the vital 6taoe« tics of - tho principal towns of the Do* • minion during, the month of October, 1912, are contained in the current Gazette. '• In Auckland .city there were 124 birtha and 43 deaths. In eight adjoining; top. oughs there were 12G births and 29 deaths. Totals, 250 births and 72 deaths. In Wellington city there were 163 birtha and' 48 deaths. In the four adjoining boroughs there were 4 births and 5 deaths. Totals, 167 births and 53 deaths. lii' Christchurch city ther« were 141 births and 49 deaths'. In four adjoining boroughs there were 26 births and 4 deaths. Totals, IG7 birth 3 and 53 deaths. In Dunedin-city there wero 117 births and 47 deaths. In six adjoining boroughs' there ivero 57 births and,24 .deaths; Totals, . 174 births and 71 deaths. The inclusion of the suburban lorougha tends to lower the rate at Auckland and Christchurch, but raises it at Wellington - and Dunedin. Death-rate per 1000 of population. Auckland City 1.05 and 8 suburban boroughs 0.53 Wellington City 0.74 and 4 suburban boroughs 0.75 Christchurch City : 0.90 and i suburban boroughs' 0.82 Dunedin. City 1.11 and G suburban boroughs . 1.12 > Including the suburbs, the rate at Dunediu is the highest, and at Wellington the lowest. . The total births in the four chief cities and their suburban boroughs amounted to 758, against G-fG in August, an increase of 112. The deaths iti September were 249— an increase of 4 as compared with last month. Of the total deaths males contributed 136, females 113. Fifty-three of th® deaths were of children under five years of age, being' 21.29 per cent, of the Whole number; 42 of tlieso were under one year of age. , .