VITAL STATISTICS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1321, 24 June 1897, Page 42

VITAL STATISTICS.

The Registrar - General's return of vital statistics for the month of May. gives the number of births and deaths and proportion of deaths to 1000 of population as follows tor the several boroughs : i .-.'■. • .--.

The figures for the four principal cities'

With regard to the four cities, the figures are also given, including their suburbs, as follows : p

The total births in t*?e *^ uv ? "«f««B"= amounted to 357, against £<?96 in April, crease of 39. The deaths iC May were 176, an increase of 1 on tho number , m .,^ n , 1,: the total deaths, males contrv bu ped lUrf, females 73. Forty-eight of the de^ ths were of children under five years of age, > 27*27 per cent, of the whole number,-.*-' OI these were under 1 year of age. Tl». er 6 wore 39 deaths of persons of 65 yeara ar*.°upwards ; 8 men, 65, 73 (two), 76 (two), W, 82, 97, and six women, 73, 75, 78 (three), 91, died at Auckland'; sis men, 67, 70, 71, 75, 77, 89, and two women, 73, 84, at Wellington; five men, 67, 69, 71, 75, 76, asd three women, 66, 77, 79, at Christchurch - y and seven men, 66 (two), 69, 77, 79, 82, 90', and two women, 77, 83, at Duneiin. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases. — lne* deaths at the four boroughs and subtnrfesduring May from this class of disease ware* limited to 15 in number, against 24 in April, Of 15 deaths in May, 3 were at Auckland, 4 at Wellington, 5 at Christchurch, and 3 at Dunedin. There was 1 death from influenza and 1 from diphtheria at Christchurch, and 4 deaths from" t.vphoid fever, one at each borough. Diarrhoeal diseases caused only 7 deaths—2 at Auckland, 2 at Wellington, 1 at Christchurch. and 2at Dunedin. The above, with 1 death from syphilis and 1 from pyaemia, complete the total of 15. Constitutional Diseases—Of 38 deaths at the four centres, 12 were from cancer, 16 from phtbisis, and 2 from diabetes. Local Diseases.—There were 20 deaths from diseases of the nervous mclading 8 from apoplexy. Deaths from diseases of the circulatory system numbered 21; from disease-? of the respiratory system, 19; of the digestive system, 16; of the urinary system, 7 ; of the reproductive system, 4. . ' Violent Deaths.—Nine were accidental, i suicidal and 1 by hanging (an execution). A. shipwright was killed by fall of timber, and ayoung woman by falling over a cliff. A coaldealer died from shock consequent upon fractured ribs, a railway employee was run over by a truck, and a woman and child were burnt to death in a boarding-house. There were 2 deaths by drowning (a clerk drowned in Wellington Harbour, and a child under two years in a tub); also 1, of a storcman, from asphyxia (cause unknown). The suicide was that of a labourer, who poisoned himself with laudanum. ' -,

Pro-: Birth*. Deaths. portion. Tharsesi ... . 15 4 0-94 New Plymouth . 12 55 078 Napier . 29 14 1'52 Wanganui ... 8 2 0*34 Palmerston N. .. 17 3 0"51 Blenheim ... . 14 4 1*33 Nelson 11 4 0~£ Greymouth 3 1 0 32 Hokitika ... 4 3 1"A<? Lyttelton ... .. 10 3 0-77" Timaru ... v • 10 2 055. Oamaru . 11 2 0-3& Invercargill .. 12 3 053 1

were j — Auckland ... Wellington Christchurch Dunedin Births. ... 75 ... 90 36 ... 40 Deaths. 29 43 25 21 Pro : portion. 0-92 115 1-47 0-92

Births. Deaths. portion. Auckland aad 5 suburban t/oioughs 99 U 101 Wellington with 3 suburban boroughs 100 44 , 1'05 Christchurch with 4 boroughs and other suburbs ••• 7S 45 1*09 Dunedin with 5 suburban boroughs BO 43 * above 0*91 boroucrhf