BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 September 1913, Page 3

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

Wellington, Thursday 'i h} number of births registered i i Now Zealand during 1012 was 27,508, or in every 1,000 persons living. The number is 1,15] above that for the year 1011, an increase of 4.38 per cent., tli* rate being higher by 0.61 par thousand. As far back as 1331 the births registered in one vear numbered 10,810. They fell to 17.876 in 1892. aid have gradually rison sine! then. The deaths in 1912 numbarod 921-1, a rate of 8.87 in every 1003 persons living, as against 9.31) in 1911. The rate for 1912 is the lowest ever recorded in New Zealand sine] compulsory registration was lir.it instituted in 18S5. The infantile d:>ath-rate is also the lowest on record, and is lower than in any other country in the world. Tnese figure* are to be published in the Year Book now in the printer's hands, and are commented upon as follows • — "In spite of the fact that the birth-rate in New Zealand is low cotn;nred with other countries yet so low is the Dominion's death-rate; that Now has actually the highest ( rate of increase among the principal countries of the world, the Australian Commonwealth, the Netherlands. Denmark, and Germany coming next in ordjr." The marriage-rato shows a decided increase during the period, from 5.97 in ISS'J to 8.81 in IDJ2 per 1000. The rate of death from tuberculosis has dropped from 1(1 p?r 1000 in 1875 to (i.9 in 1912. The dsath-ratc from cancer has risjn in the same period from two per 100.1 to eight per 1003. and exceeds the tuberculosis deathrate. The increase pjr cut. in ten yi'ats in New Zealand is iriven at 22.03. in K v.l and Wale* at 17 5, in Scotlavl at 27.01, and in_lrel.uulaun.2l in tin same period. _ A l'i»:g;j increase ii als-» shown in the death-rate from organic heart disaas?.