VITAL STATISTICS.
The ltegtstrar-General's return of vital statistics for the month of June gives the number of births and deaths aud proportion of deaths to 1000 of population as follows for the leveral boroughs :—: —
The total births in the above boroughs amounted to , 409, against 425 in May, a decrease of 16. The deaths in June were IGS, a decrease of 38 on the number in May. Of , the total deaths, males contributed 89, females 69. Thirty-nine of the deaths were of children under 5 years lof age, being 24-G8 per cent, of the whole number ; 30 of these were under 1 year of age. There were 37 deaths of persons of 66 years aud upwards: Four men, 65, 68, 71, 77, and six women, 65 (two), 66, 77, 85, 90, died at Auckland ; four men, 68, 72, 80, 82, and five women, 68, 70, 73, 79, 81, at Wellington; three men, 78, 79, 84, and three women, 69, 75, 77, at Christchurch ; and nine men, 05, 66 (three), 67 (two), 72, 76, 77, and three women, 70, 72, 79, at Dunedin. The total number of deaths from specific febrile or zymotib"- diseases 'at the four chief towns and suburbs for June was 16, against 28 in May, 30 in ; April, 43 iv March, and 53 in February. Influenza caused 3 deaths in June — 1 at Auckland and 2 at Christchurch. Diphtheria also contributed 3 deaths — 1 at Auckland, 1 at Wellington, and lat Dunediu. From typhoid fever the mortality was confined to 5 deaths — 2 at Auckland and 3at Wellington. The mortality from diarrhoeal diseases was singularly small, the deaths numbering 3 altogether — all of them at Wellington. Besides those above referred to, there was 1 deuth from erysipelas and 1 from puerperal septicaemia — both at Auckland. The deaths from constitutional diseases last mouth numbered 37, 26 being from phthisis. The mortality from cancer was low, comprising 6 deaths, against 18 in the previous month. Of 76 deaths from local disease?, 13 were from diseases of the nervous system ; 19 of ,the circulatory system ; 23 of theiespiratory system ; 12 of the digestive system ; 5 of the urinary system ; 4 of the reproductive system. There were 4 accidental deaths and 2 suicidal. All the accidental dcalhs were at Auckland. A ship's cook died of concussion ! of brain with drowning, a journalist was '" found drowned," an infant met his death from suffocation from being overlain, and another died from haemorrhage and exhaustion. A woman committed suicide by means of poison, and a draper b\ r shooting himself. Dr. W. B. Rush, Oakland, Fla.. writes :— " I employ Sander & Sons' Puro Volatile Eucalypti Extract as a local application in chronic inflammations and rheumatic pains ; internally in nephritic as well as in pulmonary, gastric, and vesical catarrh. It is sometimes difficult to obtain the genuine article. I employed different other preparations ; they had no therapeutic value and no effects. In one case the effects were similar to the oil canrphora, the objectionable action of which is well known." — This is certainly a most striking evidence of the superiority of this excellent preparation over any other. — Insist on getting Sander & Sons' Eucalypti Extract, or else yon will be supplied with worthless oils. — Advt.
Births. Deaths. j™~ portion. Thames 15 2 036 New Plymouth... 8 0 1-47 Napier 21 9 096 Wanganui ... 14 2 033 Pahnerston N. ... 15 G 098 Blenheim ... 10 3 095 Nelson 23 4 0-58 Greymouth ... 7 2 o*oo .Hokitika ... 4 4 177 Lyttelton ... 10 5 123 Timaru ... ... 9 — — Oamaru 7 2 0-38 Invercargill ... 11 3 053 The figure* for the four principal cities were : — Birth,. Deaths. £%m% m Auckland ... 85 27 0-84 Wellington ... 95 -65 1"37 Christclmrch ... 28 13 075 Dunedin ... 46 25 TO7 The figures are also given including then suburbs, as follows :—: — Births. Deaths. Auckland and 5 suburban boroughs... 119 32 071 Wellington with 3 suburban boroughs 108 59 1*32 Christclmrch with 4 boroughs and other suburbs 93 27 063 Dunedin with 8 suburban boroughs... 89 40 o'B2
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 21, 25 July 1898, Page 2
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