VITAL STATISTICS.

Evening Star, Issue 3747, 25 February 1875, Page 2

VITAL STATISTICS.

The report by the Registrar-General on the vital statistics of the boroughs of Auckland. Thames, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Hokitika, for the month of January, appears in the ‘ Gazette’ of Feb. 18. From it we note that the number of births in ftn se S m 1 en I borou S hs was 277, and of deaths 160. Ihe largest number of births (79) ocourred m the next largest (54) in Wellington, then 61 in Christchurch, 42 in Auckland. 22 in Nelson, 15 at the Thames, and 14 in Hokitika, The deaths (40) were most numerous in Dunedin. In Auckland there were 38; Wellington, 33 ; Christchurch, 27; Nelson, 12 ; and at the Thames and Hokitika, five each. Wellington, unfortunately, on this occasion has the largest proportion of deaths, the rate being 3'05 ; Auckland follows, with 2 - 90; next Christchurch, with 2"57 • Dunedin, with 2TI ; Nelson, with 207 • Hokitika, with 1‘45; and the Thames, notwithstanding the late remarkably hot weather there with only o*6o. Both in Wellington and Auckland the mortality was chiefly among infants under one year; in Dunedin and -hnstchurch, of children over five years of age. The Registrar remarks fiat there were more deaths by thirty recorded than in the month of December, and they exceeded by twenty the deaths in February, the mortality in which was greater than in any other month of 1874 Of the total number of deaths (160) recorded, not fewer than ninety were of children under five years of age. Of the excess of thirty in the total number .of deaths, it is to be remarked that fave occurred in the hospitals of Auckland a } l< * Hokitika, places which had not been ini'j d Previous returns. The age of the oldest person—a man who died in Nelson—was 66; and a man aged Co was , mongst those whose deaths were recorded in Auckland. The causes of death were classed thus .’—Zymotic discs, 34 38; constitutional diseases, 15; local diseases, 30*62 ; development diseases, 13*75 • and violent deaths, 13 75. The highest temperatures in | the shade were :—Nelson, 92* • Auckland, 86*9; Christchurch, 85’9; Wellington, 81*; Hokitika, 72*5; and Dunedift, 72.