VITAL STATISTICS.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 66, 15 September 1894, Page 4

VITAL STATISTICS.

Tho Eogistrar-Goneral's return of vital statistics for tho month of August gives tho number of births and deaths and proportion of deaths to 1000 of population as follows in tho four chief cities. The returns on thia occasion do not inolude other boroughs, except those which form suburbs to the cities :— Births. Deaths. po ™^ # Auckland ... 67 49 156 Wollington ... 75 45 1"29 Cbristchurch ... 33 11 063 Dunodin 38 22 092 With regard to tho four cities, tho figures are aIBO givon including their suburbs, as follows :— \ Births. Deaths. po ™ n Auckland and 5 sub1 urban boroughs ... 98 63 148 i Wollington with 3 ) suburban boroughs 82 50 I*3l Christchurch with 4 boroughs and othor ) Buburbs 88 36 o'B7 IHinedin with 8 subl urban boroughs ... 101 52 l'O7 j Tho total births in the four oities and * snburban boroughs amounted to 372, against • 420 in July, a decrease of 48. Tho deaths in 3 August wero 201, an increase of 12 on tho • number in July. Of tho total deaths, males " contributed 110; foinalos, 91. Fifty-sevon of * tho doaths wero of children under 5 years of a ago, being 28 - 36 por cent, of the whole nnm1 bor ; 45 of thoso wero under 1 year of age. There woro 46 doaths of persons of 65 years and upwards : of these, seven men of 67, 74, . 7G, 80, 85 (two), and 88, and nine women of \ 65, 67 (two), 68, 71, 74, 76 (two), and 80, died 0 at Auokland ; seven men of 67, 69 (two), 70, 0 75, 77, and 83, and two women of 74 and 76, ■, at Wellington ; ono man of 76, and six 1 women of 66, 70, 74, 78, 79, and 84, at f Christohnroh ; seven men of 65, 70, 73, 75, . 76 (two), and 78, and seven women of 68, 75, r 77,78,81,89, and 93, at Dunodin. o The deaths from specific _ febrile and f zymotic diseases at the four chief towns and ,f suburbs increased from 19 in July to 25 in 0 August. Influonza was again the most fatal v of tho zymotic diseases, the deaths for n Augnst having boon 10 altogether— 4 at II Auckland, 4at Christchnroh, and 2 at Dune edin. Whooping-cough caused 5 deaths v (ohildron under five years), all at Auckland. c Doaths from typhoid and low fever wore 3 only 3—2 at Wellington, and 1 at Christ,f church. The mortality from diarrhcoal s diseases was also vory low, comprising 1 [ death at Auckland and lat Christchnrch. o Scarlatina and diphtheria caused 1 death c each, at Wellington. The other deaths were 0 — 1 from syphilis (a child under five years), ; 1 from orysipelas, and 1 from puerperal sop- [' tictemia. From parasitic diseases, a male of '18 years died at Wellington of hydatids on tho brain. From constitutional diseases the •\ mortality in August was considerable, iuf eluding 4T deaths, or 2139 por cent, of tho B total deaths from all causes. Of these, 28 B were from tubercular diseases, 10 from t cancer, and 2 from diabetes. From lccil 1 diseases tho doaths at tbo four control wero t 98, or nearly 49 per cent, of the total. Of B this mimbor, 47 deaths wero from diseases of the respiratory organs, including 37 from bronchitis, pneumonia, and pleurisy, 6 from I congestion of the lungs, besides 4 others. B 1 his is a great increase on the mortality for c tho previous month, when deaths Irom B diseases of the respiratory system were only j 30. Diseases of the circulatory Bystem cong tributed 17, diseases of the nervous system j 16. and diseases of the digestive system 13 0 deaths. Thero were 4 deaths from diseases c of tho urinary organs, which, with 1 from B disease of integnments, complete the total ; . in this claus. Ot the violent deaths, 4 were '■_ cases of accidental drowning. Besides these, ; a girl of 15 years died from accidental burny ing, a mill-hand from injuries received when 1 rafting timber, and a labourer from exposure t to cold. Thero were two suicides, one of a [. schoolmaster, from self-inflicted wounds in c tbe throat, the other of a woman, who hanged y herself.