SECOND EDITION. VITAL STATISTICS.

Evening Star, Issue 3795, 23 April 1875, Page 3

SECOND EDITION. VITAL STATISTICS.

The Registrar-General’s report on the vital statistics of Auckland, Thames, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Hokitika, for the month of March, appears in yesterday’s * Gazette.* The total of the births was 279, and of the deaths 251. One remarkable feature, showing how fatal the month has been to children in Auckland, is that while the births there amounted to 46, the deaths were not less than 92, and of these 66 were of children under five years of age. At the Thames, while the births were 27, the deaths were 17 ; m Wellington, 46 and 38 respectively; in Nelson, 18 and 13; in Christchurch, 48 and 44; in Dunedin, 88 and 42; and in Hokitika, 6 and 5. The proportion of deaths in 1,000 of the population showed Auckland to be the least healthy of the seven towns named, the proportion being 7.03; Christchurch was next on the black roll, its proportion being 4.17; Wellington stood third, its figures being 3.50,. while Nelson, Dunedin, Thames, and Hokitika followed, the capital of Westland being the most healthy of the seven. There Were 18 more births in February than in the preceding month, but the deaths were 73 more, and exceeded by 111 the deaths in any month In 1874. Of those who died, 143 were males and 108 were females. The oldest was a female aged 84, and the oldest male was aged 75—both belonging to Wellington, Of the causes of death, in every 100, the percentage for zymot’c diseases was 53.78 ; local diseases, 22.71; constitutional and developmental diseases, each 10.76; and violent deaths, 1.99. Measles earned off by far the largest proportion of Victims. The average temperature in the shade was: —Auckland, 65.3; Wellington, 61.2; Nelson, 59.4; Christchurch, 58.4; Hokitika, 6,6; and Dunedin, 55.9.