VITAL STATISTICS.
DOMINION FIGURES FOR MAY. MORE DEATHS THAN IN APRIL. In the Government report on vital statistics for the urban areas of the Dominion Nelson shows the highest ratio of deaths with 1.06 in a 1000, and Palmerston North the lowest, with .42. The North Island showed .717 and the South .84. The total number of deaths in May was 595—an increase of 116, as compared with April. Of births, Napier headed the list with 24.91 per 1000, and at the bottom of the table came Gisborne, with 13.34.
Infant mortality was also heaviest in Gisborne, with 17.65 per 1000. Wellington returned the best record with 3.28.
Of deaths in all age groups the most took place among males between 75 and 80, 41 in all, and among femaies between 65 and 70, 29 in all. No centenarian deaths were recorded, but two men and three women died between the ags of 95 and 100. Diseases of the heart, with 116, came first in the list of causes of deaths, followed by cancer of various organs with 85. Pneumonia accounted for 30, apoplexy 24, and tuberculosis in its sevqj*al forms 28.
Deaths by suicide through various means totalled 11, and fatal accidents numbered 22, including three by drowning. Premature birth, with 14, caused the largest number of deaths in infant mortality.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5442, 1 July 1929, Page 2
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222VITAL STATISTICS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5442, 1 July 1929, Page 2
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