VITAL STATISTICS.
MONTH'S BIRTH-RATE GOOD. A feature in tho vital 'statistics for the month ended yesterday is tho very substantial increase in tho number of births as compared with thoso registered for the corresponding month last year. Usually tho figures rim rather olcsely, but there is a difference of 36 between tho totals on this occasion. It is interesting to noto in respect of tho returns for the past nino' months, that tho number of deaths in Wellington sinco January 1' (605) is exactly the same as for the corresponding period last year. The returns supplied by the Registrar (Mr; G. G. Hodgkins) are as follow:— September. • 1013. 1912. Births 106 160 Deaths 68 66 Marriages ........ 80 70 Marriages in office 13 22 Nine Months. 1913. 1912. . Births 1,507 1,527 Deaths 605 605 Marriages 721 779 Marriages in office 175 181
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1869, 1 October 1913, Page 9
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141VITAL STATISTICS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1869, 1 October 1913, Page 9
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