VITAL STATISTICS.
o[BY TELEGRAPH. —PKESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington-, Thursday. Subjoined are the vital statistics for the month of May, for the undermentioned boroughs :— Total Total Proportion of Boroughs. Births. Deaths, deaths to 1000. Auckland .. .. 40 30 1-S Wellington .. 75 22 107 Christclmrch .. 5U 1G 1-05 Dunedin ..77 30 1-23 Thames ..11 G 1-23 I . STaplcr .. 13 1 169 Wanganui ..IS 5 I'IS Nelson ..20 9 1.33 Sydenham ..35 17 2-11 Lyttelton ..13 3 1-73 Timaru ..26 .3 1-7G Oamnru .. 25 9 V4S Hokitika | ..IS 1 1-33 Caversham ..9 O 2»5 Invercargill ..15 7 . 1-52 The births in the above boroughs amounted to 453, against 424 in April, being an increase of 29. The deaths amounted to 171 in May, an increase of 13 on the number for April. Of the above deaths, males contributed 100, females 71. Seventy-three of the deaths were of children under five years of age, being 53-29 per cent, of the number. Sixtyeight of these were children under one year of age.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6116, 24 June 1881, Page 5
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