VITAL STATISTICS.
I The Registrar-General \s return of vital statistics for the month of February shows the number of birth;- and deaths and proportion of deaths to 1000 of population in the various towns and cities of the colony to be as follows :— 2 i .■§ * £ t W P "a Auckland ... 61 29 0.83 Wellington ... 88 39 o*BB Chrisochurch ... 28 21 TO4 Duneclm... ... 41 15 o*o2 Thames ... ... 15 1 * New Plymouth ... 15 3 o'6B Napier ... ... 15 10 I*o2 Wanganui ... 22 8 1-14 Pahncrston North 14 7 TOG Blenheim ... 8 2 O'GS Nelson ... ... 18 10 1-37 Greymouth ... 2 3 o*BB Hokitika ... 5 2 0"84 Lytteltoii ... 12 3 074 Timaru ... .., 8 4 o*o6 Oainaru ... ... 14 5 0"92 Invorcargill ... 17 4 o'6B * No available data for computing estimate.
Of the total deaths, males contributed 80; females 74. Sixty of the deaths were of children under five years of age, being 37.50 per cent, of the whole number; 53 of these were under one year of age. There were 30 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 76, 2 April 1901, Page 3
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