VITAL STATISTICS.
The Registrar-General’s vital statistics lor New Zealand in the month of February, 1876, are as follbws ;
The Registrar-General appends the following remarks :—« The birth and death rate compare unfavorably with, those in January, although favorably with those in February, 1876; the deaths having been 176. in February, 1876, against 178 in February, 1&75; the mortality of children under 5 years of age having been in February of each year exceptionally great; it amounted to 66.85 per cent, of the total deaths in February, 1875, and 61.36 per cent, in 1876. The deaths from zymotic diseases increased from 60 in January to 78 in February. Of the 4 deaths from scarlet fever, 2 occurred at Auckland and 2 at the Thames. Of the 9 deaths from typhus or typhoid fever, 3 (typhoid) occurred in A uckland, 3 (gastric or typhus) in Wellington, and 2 (typhoid) in Christchurch. There were 47 deaths from bowel complaints (dysentery, diarrhoea, and cholera). The largest number of these (17) occurred in Christchurch (2 from cholera) ; 10 occurred in Auckland, 7 in Wellington, and 10 in Dunedin. Of these last enumerated 44 deaths, 38 were of children chiefly under one year. The number of deaths included in the other classes of diseases did not vary much from the numbers in January, although there is a difference in the details. The eleven described as violent deaths, resulted from the following respective causes :—Accident or Negligence.— Killed by overturning of an express, 1; killed by railway accident, 1 ; fracture of leg, 1; dragged by a horse, 1; drowned, 3; apuoea, 1. Suicide.— Poison, 2 (both cases of temporary insanity) ; hanging, 1 (unsound mind). The provisional meteological report shows the temperature of the month to have been above the average everywhere but in Auckland, while the rainfall was greatly below the average at all stations.— ‘ Post.’
Borough. Total Births. Total Deaths. Proportion of Deaths to the 1,00 • of Population. Auckland 41 38 2.89 Thames 20 9 1.08 ■Wellington... 60 28 2.49 Nelson 19 8 1.37 Christchurch. 45 45 4.19 Dunedin 82 41 2.10 Hokitika ...... 6 7 2.00 Total 273 176 ,
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Evening Star, Issue 4081, 25 March 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)
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352VITAL STATISTICS. Evening Star, Issue 4081, 25 March 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)
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