BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
DOMINION FIGURES. [THE PBEBB Special Service.] WELLINGTON, February 4. lu the abstract of statistics the Government Statistician has given figures for births and deaths in the fourteen urban areas. These show that the birth rate per thousand has increased on last year "to 19.i!4 per thousand, as compared with 18.90. The death rate, however, has increased to 9.33 per thouband, as compared with 8.85, and this is mainly due to winter epidemics of influenza and whooping cough, which took a substantial toil of lives. The infant mortality rate is again low, 44.7 per thousand, as compared with 56.46 in 1921, and 44.70 in 1925. In the tables showing the causes of deaths there are increases in 1926 in measles, whooping . cough, influenza, tuberculosis, cancer, apoplexy, bronchitis, broncbo-penumonia, and pneumonia, and also in nephritis. Deaths by accident show a slignt increase, but there are decreases in infantile paralysis (from 89 in 1925 to seven in 1926) and appendicitis.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18918, 5 February 1927, Page 2
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