VITAL STATISTICS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 252, 17 July 1908, Page 7

VITAL STATISTICS.

I According to the vital statistics for June, .908; the death-rato per 1000 is .82 at Weljngton, the same .at Christchurch, .87 at )unedin, while Auckland has tho lowest— 71. During tho nionth 168 infants were lorn at Auckland, 148 at Wellington, 149 at Jhristchurch, and 123 at Dijnedin. • The inclusion of the suburban' boroughs tends to lower the rato at Auokland, Wellington, and Dunedin, but raises it at Christchurch, the figures (at per 1000); being" respectively, .80,_ ,85, : ,78, and-1,10, • , ' ' j The total births iu tho above borough? amounted to 588,' against's72 in May—an increase of 16, The deaths in June were 21i;> decrease of 1 on tho number in May. Of' the total deaths,' males contributed 112, females 99. Forty-six of tho deaths were'' of hildren under f|ve years of: age; being/21.80 er cent,'of the wholo number; 83 of'th?se -ere under one year of age.' jOf the ills the flesh is -;heir_to, .the : heaviest -Oil is exacted by heart-diseaso; which is responsible for 27 deaths; phthisis claims 175 pneumonia, 12; apoplexy, 7; Bright's disease, 6;' Premature birth-caused the deaths of'no fewer than. 19 infants.

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