THE BIRTH AND DEATH-RATE IN THE COLONY.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 86, 24 May 1879, Page 2

THE BIRTH AND DEATH-RATE IN THE COLONY.

j The P.egie'Tar-G-eueral (says iha hi. Z , Waolcl/ liews), in his report (or tot last |yu»r apot the vital statistics or th* oavj:. i pxiioipal borcugho in the colony, itizgs out aever&i noteworthy facts. * 11878, in these borou£fcs, th;ro I birth-i registered, equal'.: 43-i3 per 1000 :of ih<; aggregate ruoar popokfcio ;f tit j boroughs, against 3618, or 4d ;.*r 1000 Io: the o-polatiou in 1H77. i'lie' bir:aa in 1576 numbered 362:.' Jhsre haa '.hue j beer, a gradual decrease in the birth rate I; or iCOO cf the population. In 1575 the j cirih--ate in lifciglaad ati Y/a.ea ,-aa | 35 - 3 per 1000 )iarso:.s HVv.g; bat in the , Co—ty of Durham, taa airth-riie was i ioS per 1000. .'a Durliaaa Shu laarritd j . eomprkod 6i> per cent if ill the | nrcsua of the t-jas ,f 15 to 45. la the | New Zealand borjug.s sUied. the aiar- ; riiu womeii ..Tiiaated tu 558 -,er ;eitt cf all rhe women a; the ».ge* -jf 15.it 45, | 'Ji<; total cuaaer if ieiealea in the i troughs btiug ia the proportion of 95 63 to Gvery ajales, while in England and Walei- the ■pxytttiii ,vaa 10537, thereby wmesdiag :a& aiaies by fully 5$ per a<;c'. . the Coanij if Durhsra the pr.-p-.r. i. ..■ jf fealties CO v/acj 100 males was 34. :3/3, :ne daatae ii ;a% Ne^ Zoalaa-i: or.vghs numbered 1232, sgniaat 1328 lU .8/7, x decrease, b 1878 at 94 deaths A:l4irf=g i*si :_6 difference it pOjiO'AdAS "/.ess _jm:.Bra represent i •Jewii-ruie it 1878 sf 1498 per 1000 aJ ihe _.opuisuon, aad i:. .877 of IG*S3 sir 10UO There vsa a reduction in the death-rate* in *Loh af fiie boroughs, etSofct Cbrist-sburon. Li taat borough the iea;h.-r-i :<; was 15 5 it 2877, utd 10-23 | ii»l37B. The ae-toaa in -.he boxoughjpf ! ihildrea u_der 1 veer amounted in 1878 ; » 426, „r 1176 per oe.it. si ";he births, against 11-25 per can:, in 137'/. and 13.77 per »Li. ii 1876. Tie deaths under > year amounted to 9198 per -eat. of the total aoatha,agaujt 3062 in 1877, aaa Si* ia 1876.