VITAL STATISTICS.

Evening Star, Issue 4049, 17 February 1876, Page 2

VITAL STATISTICS.

The Registrar-General's vital Btatis'tics for January ate as. follows.:— .:,/;,

•The' Registrar adds the following? general-re-marks :—" With a very >mall -increase in the i number of births, the number of deaths has been greater than during any preceding month Bince May lhsti The'number of deatbß (154) in : January, 1876- i'b, however, less than the num. berof: de»thB'(160): in January r l«7&- The4o>. crease in the deaths of last month over those hi .December is "chiefly to the increase of deaths (principally of children i under one , year) from the numbers having been i3l iqt Janury..a'3'aim-t 8 in Decemb r. Of these deaths in January ,9 occurred in Wellington and 1.1 in Christchur hj. A. somewhat increaaa i occurred in deaths from this cau*e, the majority of these ; deaths having then likewiee occurred mWollington and Chiistchu cb. Diseases of the s•' ! spiratorv organs yielded 7 deaths in January against 18 in December. > The viol nt deaths were much higher than the average* 1 he deaths from drowning having numbered 5 put of tibia 12 deaths." The * Post' remarks 1 h»t the pos'tion of Wellington in.rthese returns affords matter for serious reflection, as .showing ,hpwi io the present utterly condition of the city, a single slight change of weather may alter its death-rate from that of the smallest to one of the heaviest but one ' in New Zealand—Chri«tchurch always holding "the worst place of all. 1 he mean s temperature was below the avenge st Chrißtchurob, WeU lington, 'and Auckhmd,; tiip. : lilpqa places which had the highest death rate, bufc, above ( the average at all the other stations. The rainfall was .gttfatly. below the, a«emge eyerywjjere exceptmg in Auckland, where it was in exoe+B. It shoul&tetasted tthat/'no return 1b given for Napteriiw&erjfcao, doubt an excess also would.

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: UOBOUOHB lOTAl.BlBTKS. .. Tot»* ..•: Deaths P Kb FOB* rTION OF ' I?£ATHB FBB-1000. {Wellington... Chris tchurch. Hokitika ' ' V . '' . 46 ■''' aa :■■ €7 ■ S3.. ,., 41 $8 10 •'•32 ' 6 SO . ;14 . 35 32 -«'■ ii t 2.43 .78 2.«7 .2.89 , 3-flO l.«4 1.4S / Total .. ,' ■"»?' • •' 154 . . >i|.).i; ■'.',!-.