VITAL STATISTICS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 291, 18 May 1875, Page 4

VITAL STATISTICS.

We take the following from the Registrar General's report on the vital statistics of the various boroughs of the colony during the month of April:— P °Pf- Birth,. Deaths. *£>

Although the Auckland and Hokitika Hospitals are situated outside the boundaries of the respective boroughs, yet the deaths in them have, for the sake of uniformity, been included in this report. The population has been estimated by adding the excess of births over deaths since the Ist March, 1874, to the then census population. It is impossible to estimate the increase from immigration. The births were 27 more than in March. The deaths were 81 fewer in number than the deaths in March. Of the deaths, males contributed 95; females, 75; 98 of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 57*64 per cent, of the whole number; 53 of these were of children under 1 year of age. The deaths of children under 1 year of age were 25 fewer than in March; the deaths of all under five were 56 fewer than in March. There were 5 deaths of persons of 65 and upwards—2 males of 75 in Auckland; 1 male of 69 and 1 female of 80 in Nelson; and 1 female of 69 in Wellington. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 80 in April, against 135 in March. The decrease chiefly occurred in the deaths from measles in Auckland, which were only 18 in April, against 45 in March; and in the number of deaths from bowel complaints, dysentery, diarrhoea, and cholera having caused 23 deaths in April against 46 in March. The deaths from measles have been almost limited to Auckland (18), and Thames (4.) Two deaths only from that cause have occurred in the other boroughs— ie., 1 in Wellington and I in Dunedin. The deaths from typhoid fever were by two less numerous than in the previous months; but the proportion of deaths has varied in the respective boroughs. While the deaths fromjthat cause in Wellington were 2 in March and 6 in April, the deaths in Christchurch fell from 11 in March to 5 in April. Constitutional diseases were less fatal in April than in March. The deaths from phthisis were 8 in Aprilto 13 in March. The deaths from local (diseases were 45 in April to 57 in March ; the deaths from diseases of the nervous system having being II in April against. 21 in March ; and the deaths from diseases of the digestive organs having been 8 in April against 13 in March.

Auckland ... 13,049 53 48 3-68 Thames 8,251 16 24 291 Wellington.. 10,857 60 30 276 Nelson 5,788 17 17 2'94 Christchurch 10,556 53 24 2-27 Dnnedin ... 19,017 90 24 1-21 Hokitika ... 3,451 17 3 0-87