VITAL STATISTICS.

Press, Volume XXV, Issue 3228, 5 January 1876, Page 3

VITAL STATISTICS.

The Begistrar-General's-report on the vital statistics of the various boroughs in the colony for November is published in the Gazette, of which the following is a summary :—

Auckland ... 13,108 40- 37 2-82 Thames ... 8,307 17 5 060 Wellington.. 11,122 66- 10 090 Nelson ... 5,834 23 11 189 Christchurch 10,712 48 13 121 Dunedin ... 19,382 89 34 1-75 Hokitika ... 3,480 16- 4 1-15

Although the Auckland and Hokitika Hospitals are situated outside the boundaries of the respective boroughs, yet the deaths in them have, for the sake of nniformity, been included in this report. The population has been estimated by adding the excess of births over deaths since the Ist March, 1874,. to the then census population. It is impossible to estimate the increase from immigration. The births were 11 more thaa in October. The deaths were 15 less in number than the deaths in October. Of the death?, males contributed 72; females, 42; 38 of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 33*33 per cent of the whole number ; 26 of these were of children under 1 year of age. There were 4 deaths of persons of 65 years of age or over, —namely, 3 males and 1 female. The males were aged 85, 83, and 73 ;■ 2 died at Auckland, 1 in Wellington. The female was 65 years of age ; she died in Auckland.