VITAL STATISTICS.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1235, 18 February 1878, Page 3

VITAL STATISTICS.

The following is the Registrar-General’s report on the vital statistics of seven of the principal boroughs in New Zealand for the month of January:—

The deaths of persons not residents of the boroughs, occuring at hospitals, have been excluded in all cases. The estimates of the population are calculated on the number of inhabited houses in each borough, as shown in returns supplied by the municipal authorities. The births wore 89 more than in December. The death were 2 fewer in number than the deaths in December. Of the deaths, males contributed 71; females, 56 ; 84 of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 66.14 per cent, of the whole number ; 68 of these were of children under one year of age. There were 9 deaths of persons of 65 years of age and over ; 5 of these persons were males and 4 females ; 2 males of 67 and 86, and 2 females of 67 and 70, died at Auckland; 1 female of 87 at Nelson; 2 males of 66 and 79, and 1 female at 74, at Dunedin ; and 1 male of 66 at Hokitika.

Boroughs. Estimated Population Jan., 1873. Total Births. Total Deaths. *“ Proportion of deaths to the 1000 of Population Auckland 13,269 45 18 1-36 Thames 4,466 31 7 1-57 Wellington ... 18,538 69 45 2*43 Nelson 5,659 24 11 1-94 Christchurch... 13,5 i3 55 22 1-63 Ducedin 1 25,512 96 22 •86 Hokitika 2,733 16 2 •73 Totals ... 336 12? 1 ...