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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4777, 14 July 1876, Page 2

The Registrar-General's report on the vital statistics of the boroughs of Auckland, Thames, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Hokitika for June are published. The proportion of deaths to the 1000 was as follows :—At Auckland, 1'59 ; Thames, 'B3 ; Wellington, 2'28 ; Nelson, 'sl ; Christchurch, 2'03 ; Dunedin, 1'67 ; Hokitika, '2B. The births were 15 more than in May. The deaths were 2 more in number than the deaths in May. Of the deaths males contributed GO ; females, 53 ; 37 of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 32'71 per cent, of the whole number : 20 of these were of children under 1 year of age. There were 7 deaths of persons of 05 years "and over | .5 of these persons were males and 2 females : of these, 1 male, aged 69, died at Aucldand ; I male of 65 at Nelson; and 3 of 66, 76, and 79, respectively, at Dunedin; 1 female, aged 73, died at Wellington ; and 1 of 75 at Dunedin. The deaths in June were 113, against 111 in

May. DiarrKoea, jwhich : caused 1 death - in May, was. fatal !ih 5 cases last 'month. \ Fronj typhoid fever Sth'ere were'4 deaths,! as in Mayl Scarlatina caused '9/deatha; 2at 2 at Wellington,'and 5' at Dunedin, against a total of 7 for May. The deaths from diseases of the respiratory, system show a total of 16, against Bin May. There were at Auckland 3 cases, at the Thames 2, at Wellington 6, at Hokitika 1, and at Dunedin 4. Of violent deaths, one case was that of a man 40 years of age, who was accidentally killed by injury to his brain, caused.by a fall down stairs ; the other was a death from a' wound in the intestines, from a fall on a stump of a tree. In June, 1875, there were 152 deaths in the boroughs, or 39 more than occurred in June, 1876. Comparison of causes shows that there were in June, 1876, 6 cases of measles, against none in 1876 ; and 17 of typhoid fever, against 4 last month ; but, on the other hand, scarlatina caused 9 deaths in June last, against none in 1875. There were 28 deaths from diseases of the respiratory system in June, 1875, against only 16 in the corresponding month this year. The excess of deaths for June, 1875, over those in June, 1876, being largely attributable to that cause.