VITAL STATISTICS.
[BT TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] ' WELLINGTON, Friday. The folio-wing are tile vital statistics for February
Deaths occurring at hospitals of persons not residents of the borough, wherein the hospital is situated have been allotted in each case to the borough where the disease ■was contracted, and not to that in which the death actually took place. The total births in the above boroughs' amounted to 438, against 473 in January, a decrease of 35. The deaths in February were 211, a decrease cf 40 on the number in January. Of the total deaths males contributed 103; females ICB. Seventy-seven of the deaths were of children under five years of age, being 36.49 per cent, of the whole number. Fifty-eight of these were under one year of age. There were 36 deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards.
Popu- Total Total Deaths latiou. Births. Deaths, to 1000 Auckland ... 37,022 91 47 1.27 Birkenhead ... 1,109 1 5 4.51 Devonport ... 4,417 . 10 7 1.58 Newmarket ... 2,104 5 2 0.95 Grey Lynn ... 5,212 9 5 0.95 Parnell ... 4,834 7 12 2.48 Totals ... 54,058 123 73 1.43 ■Wellington and suburbs ... 52,590 124 51 ; 0.97 Christchurch and suburbs 49,422 89 36 0.73 Dunedin and suburbs ... 54,632 102 '46 0.84
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12231, 28 March 1903, Page 3
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