VITAL STATISTICS.
The vital statistics for the various boroughs in the colony for November appear in the Gazette, The following is a summary : P Son. i ‘' liirths - B “‘ tlls ’ D rSo b '
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 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 42 less than in October, The deaths were 3 more in number than the deaths in October. Of the deaths, males contributed 60; females, 46; 51 of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 48T1 per cent of the whole number; 38 of these were of children under 1 year of age. There were 6 deaths of persons of 65 years of age and over; 3 of these persons were males and 3 females. Of these, 2 males, aged 67 and 70 respectively, and 1 female, aged 70, died at Wellington ; 1 male, aged 69, and 2 females, aged 71 and 79, at Nelson.
Auckland ... 18,403 48 24 1-79 Thames 8,467 24 2 0-24 Wellington 11,643 67 19 1-63 Nelson 5,986 20 8 1-34 Christchurch 11,013 48 25 2-27 Dunedin ;... 20,024 82 26 1-30 Hokitika ... 8,550 7 2 0-56
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Globe, Volume VII, Issue 781, 21 December 1876, Page 3
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