VITAL STATISTICS.

Evening Star, Issue 3979, 25 November 1875, Page 2

VITAL STATISTICS.

The Pe.-is rnr-t-eiier. 8 re. ort on the vit e s).ati-ti< s of the vnr .ms boroughs in the . '..f i y for Coher i- published in the ‘G, z t e ’ .if which the following i- summary

> Although ih» Aurk l n<l ami Hotit't-, ri,. s . pit As aif Bit.uat.it i outsitl* pie hj nmli, j., R , r the rtvpeotee boroughs, ■, et l, e .!e,ulo 10 th in have, for the sake of uniformity. b”oe included in this report, ho p> n! ion has hem estiin.it .1 by add up tic excess -.f births •ve deaths since tea Ist M.uvh, 1874; to ihe then to estimate trom ini mi {rni.-u. As 'has stands at the lend •■f the list with a. population ot 71) 827 ; nek land bring secon.i with 13.105 ; W liinatm. next with 11,006; and < hristehurc . combi" last with 10,6.‘7.

The bird.s w re 11 mo.- than in Septemliethe deaths were 3 more in munb r than the o.eaths in is A. N.her Of the .'ea'-hs m des eon','ihu'e 1 85. femar-s 44: 39 of th - deaths '■p-e of ehinlre , un er 5 i-ms tl f -.g,., '.,4 ~. 30 *3 pe ent. ••£ he wit’, le umn'vr ; ’JS ■ f 1 w< r> f eh• hiivu none 1 \ a ~f ........ I h"e.. sep" u"g, n.ij’i.ins died duiir: , n. m i.r'i one m.le aged 79, a 1 'urhard, ~1 ’em ties each 70, one at .no..laud and t; 11other at Dunedin. tic, deaths Pom zyite. Ie diseases show d a decrea-e of 9, .o,d ;h -s ! ft out c'li.stitutmna! diseases a de teiseof 10, i < >n tin* other hand, the violent d- aths unronsed 1 from 7to 17. they included two murders, a . “justifiable homiu de” (. yrus Haley, shot bv a gaol warder in Dunedin), and a child aud-ieo ! t l!y run over in Wellington. Eleven deaths were canse-g by accident or negligence, the total death roli was 129, as compared with 130 in Detoher, 1874, when al-o the deaths fiom zvmoti • di eases were 30 as against 25 this year, the excess in 1874 being attributed to the prevalence of mead< s

IVrnl tion. Births Deaths, D Mth rate. Auc-.k.aiul ... 1:. .05 4;’. 28 2-13 I'h ni^s 8 295 22 7 0 81 " ellington... 11 060 67 10 0 90 NelfcO’i 5 822 21 8 1 37 Christchurch 10 677 33 21 1 96 Dui'din 19 327 82 51 2.611 Hokitika :i 4 8 15 4 115