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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4265, 20 November 1874, Page 2

The Kegistar-GeneraTs report on the Vital Statistics of the boroughs of Auckland, Thames, "Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dimedin, and Hokitika, for the past month, has reached us. The total number of births was 294. Dunedin, with a. popxilation of 18,499, contributed eighty-six to that number; and Wellington, which has 2228 fewer people than Auckland, contributes fifty-five, while the latter only gives fifty-four; and Christchurch, with 10,294 people, had not more than fifty births in the month. At the Thames, with 8073 people, there were only seventeen ; at Nelson twenty-two, with 5662 of a population; and at Hokitika ten, with 3352 people. The total number of deaths was 130. The highest percentage was 2'97, in Dunedin; hut it was the unsatisfactory figure of 2'28 in "Wellington, while it was 1'75 in Christchurch ; I'4o in Auckland; o'9o at the Thames; o'B9 at Hokitika ; and 0 - 70 in healthy Nelson. As regards infant life, the mortality in October still showed unfavorably for "Wellington. Three females died at between seventy and seventythree, and three males at between sixty-five and seventy-six years of age. Local diseases occasioned sixty, zymotic diseases thirty, constitutional diseases twenty-one, and development diseases twelve. There were six deaths by violence, all accidental; and one from a cause not specified. The average temperature in the shade was highest in Auckland and Nelson, aad lowest in Dunedin. The rainfall was greatest (8'990) at Hokitika, and lowest (1770) at Christehiu'ch.