VITAL STATISTICS.
; ; The 'following letter appeared in the Lyttel-: tonlTiMes of this ihbrriing :— ' -■•■■•■ Sib, — Having ,. received. ,the .RegistrarGeneral's reporfc o^the vital statistics of the seven* several boroughs undermentioned;'* viz, Auckland, Thames, Wellington, Nelson', Chrisfcchurcb, Dunedini and Hokitika, I ; proceed to lay thY following" cbriclusionß before your readers. Thafc Christchurch, with a population amounting after last March cenaua to 16,945, has had during fche month of August laafc 25 deaths registered ; while in Dunedin, the most thickly populated borough in the colony, having-afr-laat cenauß a population 'of 18,"499 during a like period, only 35 deaths-were registered. Wellington, with a population of 10,547 reaches only 16 deaths for the Bame month.*! Tbe.'inc'reased death fate ; in 'Chriatchurch ia shown by fche following proportion 1 of deaths to the 1000 of population. . . Chriatchurch . ,2.42.. „• • Danedin ... "... 7i. 1.89 : -•'.■•*. Wellington ..'.'..."' 1;51 : Thameß ... ,1.11 . , .. I kNelson ' ..7- 1 '"-.••.■;'• '-■ v.. 0.70 ; '•"■ i ' : Of the deaths in Chriatchurch, 17 were of children under live years of - age r ; that ia, two more -than in Duneaihj.antl ten more than in Wellington bf children of a like age. From the report I quote the following :—- --" More deaths occurred 'from 'diseases of the reßpiratory eystem in Christchurch than, in any other borough ; in Auckland there were two ; in Dunedin, two ; in Chriatchurch, eleven ; and in Wellirigfcon^five deaths of this olassV-V v,L:.. LJk _.?;•_ '■...:. 'k.u. .-'.:. These are facts which apeak for themselves, and I recommend fchem to the earHestfcohsiderafcipn: of, r the. City- Council as I api. convinced that the time nas '' arrived, J and" cannot longer be put off, when it; behovea. .usjta-fcake;: fche requiaite atepß to relieve Christchurch from the aigma of being indisputably -the • moßt unhealthy borough in the colony. ■> MICHAEL HART. :
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 2037, 17 September 1874, Page 2
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281VITAL STATISTICS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 2037, 17 September 1874, Page 2
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