MONTH’S RETURNS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 3 May 1926, Page 5

MONTH’S RETURNS.

x VITAL STATISTICS. The refill'll of vital statistics for 'linntru fur last iiioiilli shows an all round increase over the corresponding mouth of last year. Births increased by fourteen and deaths ami marriages by one. The comparative returns are as under

.MARRIAGES. In April of last year marriages totalled 17. wiule for the inoiUli jusl ended the figures were IS. JN LECTIO VS DISEASES. Tlia return of infectious diseases for South Canterbury for last month, as supplied bv the District Health Ofiicei" (Air J. Alen/.ies), shows a drop of tour cases, as compared with the March return, when the l-otal was to. Jam moiitii's total or J. t "us made up of 9 scarlet fever, one diphtheria, and one puerperal fever, and were from the undermentioned districts: Timai'u Borough: I ivc scar-ot fool, one diphtheria, one puerperal ,<nei. \Ya.mate Borough.--One scarlet fever. Levels Coe.nly.--Throe scarlet lover. No oiiPCs wero nnl'ln'd Irom ' *■'* mulct />(■ Geraldine fuhe. the Lei a dine, Mackenzie or Wainuile Counties, or from tli.e Pleasant Voial To’' u Bae.ro Dist rivt.

MIRTHS. 192,1. 192G Males a-_> 20 Eemalee *” ... 9 23 — — 31 43 — — DEATHS. 102,1. 1920. .Males .. 12 7 Kema'lcs 4 H) — ■— 10 17