VITAL STATISTICS.
FIGURES FOR URBAN AREAS. •! r WELLINGTON, February’ 4. In the Abstract of Statistics the Goveminent Statistician has given figures for births and deaths in the 14 urban areas, lhese show that the birth-rate per 1006 increased on last - vear 19-24 per 1000, as compared with 18.95. The deathrate, however, has increased to 9.33 per 1000 as compared with 8.85, and this is mainly due to winter epidemics of influenza and whooping cough, which took a substantial toll of lives. The infant mortality rate is the lowest for years past, and was 44.7 per 1000' as 1925 Paled " ith 56-46 in 1921 ’ and 44,70 in In the tables showing the cases of deaths there are increases in 1926 in measles, whooping cough, influenza, tuberculosis, cancer, apoplexy, bronchitis, • bronchopneumonia, and pneumonia, also in nephritis. Deaths by accident show a silght increase, but there are decreases in measles, infantile paralysis—from 89 . ,in 1925 to seven in 1926—and appendicitis.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3804, 8 February 1927, Page 72
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