VITAL STATISTICS.
[BY TELEGRAPH, UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, March 19. Subjoined are the Registrar-General's returns of the vital statistics of the principal boroughs in the colony for the mouth of February last: — Pro'n. Total Total deaths Boroughs. Jiirthn. Deaths. to 1000 poplt'n. Auckland 50 17 I'l3 Wellington 78 41 I "'JO Christchurch 45 4S 3*17 Dunediu G2 31 1"29 Thames 14 2 0"34 Napier ... 27 S I*2o Wanganui 19 10 2"JO Nelson 14 12 I'7G Sydenham 38 19 2*44 Lyttelton 17 G I*o4 Timaru ... 29 9 2*38 Oamaru... 14 G I'lß Hokitika 12 0 0' Caversham 9 4 I'OG Invercargill 18 4 0'93 Totals ... 437 217 The total births in the above boroughs are 437. against 511 in January, being a decrease of 74. The deaths amounted to 217 in February, being an increase of 34 on the number in January. Of the above deaths, males contributed 128; females, 89. One hundred and thirteen of the deaths were children under live years, beiDg 52'07 per cent, of the whole number. Eighty-nino of these were of children under one year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5729, 29 March 1880, Page 6
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