VITAL STATISTICS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9603, 18 December 1896, Page 6

VITAL STATISTICS.

(press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, December 17. The following are the vital statistics for the colony for the month of November:—

The total number of births in the abovenamed boroughs amounted to 320, against 372 in October, a decrease of 52. The deaths in November were 116, a decrease of 62 on the number in October. Of the total deaths males contributed 62, females 64. Twenty-eight of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 24.14 per cent, of the whole number ; 22 of these were under 1 year of age. There were 22 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards. Two men, 65,71, and 4 women, 66, 67, 68, 83 died at Auckland; 2 men, 85, at Wellington ; 3 men, 66, 73, 74, and 3 women, 70, 74, 80 at Christchurch ; and 3 men, 70, 72 (2), and 5 women, 68, 70, 79, 80, 99, at Dunedin.

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Boroughs. II? •l S .o S a. Births. Deaths. I rt O 8 Ii! odA P." o ft, 0.89 066 Luckland City Birkenhead Devonport Newmarket Newton Parneli 31,424 690 3,010 1,929 2,379 4,196 72 28 I 9 3 8 6 2 - - 3 0.71 Total ""i~l I 33 I I 0.76 43,628 Wellington City.. Kiurori Melroee Onslow 37,441 1,024 2,044 1,249 41,758 I 1 I 18 I 0.48 ~ 1 . - Total 68 i I 0.43 18 ihriatchurch City Lihwood St. Albana » .. Sydenham Woolston 16,964 6,115 5,781 10,312 2,057 22 13 7 19 2 13 5 8 10 1 0.82 1.38 0.97 0.49 TMal .J 41,229 63 I I 37 , I 0.90 DunedinCity .. Caversham Maori Hill ..: Momington N.E. VaHey .. Koslyn St. Hilda South Dunedin West Harbour.. 22,815 4,763 1,483 3,584 3,374 4,118 1,185 4,592 1,366 47,2S0~ 46 13 3 4 7 7 2 8 l 18 3 1 1 2 1 2 I 0.79 0.63 1.28 0.30 0.49 0.84 0.44 ' Total