VITAL STATISTICS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5406, 3 April 1929, Page 4

VITAL STATISTICS.

MONTH OF FEBRUARY. FIGURES FOR URBAN AREASThe N.Z. Gazette records Nelson, showing 1.00, as having the largest proportion of deaths per I,o'oo c*f population, and Gisborne registering ■the lowest, with .33. The Auckland figure; was .49. ‘ In all the urban areas the gieatest number of deaths among males occurred from the at’jes of 60' to 65 and 65 to 70, 24 demises in each case. The age average among females was higho’, with 19 depths to each period 65 to 70 and 70 to 75. No centenarians died (hiring the month,, fejmales be-. ine, the highest again according to age with two deaths between 95 and 100. The figures for males were two deaths between 90 and 95. Deaths from infectious diseases numbered 42, tuberculosis claiming tlie most with 29. Heart diseases topped the scale with 76 deaths, followed by cancer with 60. Of suicides two were by poisonous, gas, one by hanging,, two by drowning, two by firearms, and 1 one by cutting instruments, making a total of eight fat February. INFANT MORTALITY. Premature birth was the e.ause of nine infants’ deaths out of a total f 28. Congenital debility, etc., accounted for six, while four were registered against congenital malformation. One infant died from accidental suffocation.