VITAL STATISTICS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 368, 17 August 1875, Page 3

VITAL STATISTICS.

The vital statistics of the various boroughs in! the colony for the month of July is published in the Gazette , of which the following is the summary Pnnnlfl* .. —. . Dfi&tll"

Although the Auckland and Hokitika Hospitals are situated outside the boundaries of the respective boroughs, yet the deaths in them have, for the sake of uniformity, been included in this report. The population has been estimated by adding the excess of births over deaths since the Ist March, 1874, to the then census population. It is impossible to estimate the increase from immigration. The births were 32 fewer than in June. The deaths were 14 fewer in number than the deaths in June, Of the deaths, males contributed 83; females, 55; 60 of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 48-47 per cent of the whole number ; 42 of these were of children ,under I year of age. There were 13 deaths of persons of 65 and upwards—l male of 80, and 3 females of 72, 80, and 87 respectively, in Auckland ; 1 female of 73 at the Thames ; 3 males of 65, 75, and 100, and 3 females of 70, 73, and 81 respectively, in Wellington ; and 2 males of 71 and 75 respectively in Dunedin.

ropuiation. Births. Deaths. rate. Auckland ... 13,056 53 28 2-14 Thames 8,252 21 7 084 Wellington.. 10,969 56 32 291 Nelson 5,801 18 10 T72 Christchurch 10,618 41 32 3‘01 Dunedin ... 19,158 93 26 1’35 Hokitika ... 3,465 5 3 0-86