VITAL STATISTICS.
The vital statistics for the various boroughs in the colony for August have been published in the Gazette P t°i P on! a ' Deaths. rafe Auckland ... 13,300 Cl 22 1‘65 Thames ... 8,409 25 4 048 Wellington 11,495 63 18 P 67 Nelson ... 5,943 21 6 101 Christchurch 10,894 56 19 1'74 Dunedin ... 19,860 86 27 1‘96 Hokitika ... 3,523 12 1 o'2B The deaths of persons not residents of the boroughs, occurring at hospitals, have been excluded in all cases. The population has been estimated by adding the excess ol 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 10 fewer than in July. The deaths were 20 fewer in number than the deaths in July, Of the deaths, males contributed 48 ; females, 49 ; 30 of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 40‘21 per cent of the whole number; 27 of these were of children under 1 year of age. There were 5 deaths of persons of 65 years of age and over ; 3 of these persons were males and 2 females. Of these, 1 male, aged 67 and 2 females, aged 68 each, died at Wcllington ; 1 male, of 81 years, at Dunedin ; and 1 male, of 72 years, at Hokitika.
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Globe, Volume VII, Issue 702, 19 September 1876, Page 4
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224VITAL STATISTICS. Globe, Volume VII, Issue 702, 19 September 1876, Page 4
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