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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 80a
Proportions Per Cent. of Deathb from Each Cause
Proportions Per Cent. of Deathb from Each Cause.
| Males. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Causes of Death. | Under 5 Years. | Over 5 Years. | ||||
| N.Z. '85-94 | NS W. '90-93. | E&W, 1890. | N.Z. '85-94. | NS W. '90-93. | E&W. 1890. | |
| Febrile or Zymotic Disease | 24.37 | 22.18 | 22.96 | 7.95 | 9.23 | 5.80 |
| Parasitic Dis. | .79 | .53 | .30 | .14 | .37 | .03 |
| Dietetic Dis. | 1.15 | 1.09 | .13 | 1.08 | 1.79 | .75 |
| Constituti'l Dis. | 5.61 | 5.23 | 8.81 | 21.36 | 19.04 | 21.67 |
| Developm'l Dis | 12.38 | 9.64 | 9.09 | 4.80 | 9.14 | 6.75 |
| Local Diseases | 40.27 | 44.43 | 45.80 | 47.20 | 44.40 | 57.80 |
| Violence.. | 4.37 | 3.61 | 2.13 | 16.06 | 14.43 | 6.16 |
| III-defined and not specified | 11.11 | 13.29 | 10.78 | 1.41 | 1.54 | 1.04 |
| Total | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Females. | ||||||
| Febrile or Zymotic Disease. | 26.46 | 24.64 | 26.34 | 9.98 | 14.19 | 6.85 |
| Parasitic Dis. | .81 | .50 | .29 | .15 | .49 | .03 |
| Dietetic Dis. | 1.27 | 1.26 | .10 | .51 | .69 | .43 |
| Constituti'l Dis. | 5.85 | 4.94 | 8.27 | 22.37 | 20.82 | 22.94 |
| Developm'l Dis. | 10.99 | 912 | 8.43 | 4.99 | 8.94 | 9.10 |
| Local Diseases. | 38.72 | 43.38 | 43.75 | 57.75 | 40.21 | 57.72 |
| Violence. | 3.91 | 2.90 | 2.08 | 3.27 | 4.46 | 1.92 |
| III-defined and not specified. | 11.99 | 13.26 | 10.74 | .98 | 1.20 | 1.01 |
| Total | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
The effect of local circumstance is seen when we compare, for example, the proportion of male deaths over five years of age from violence in this colony with what obtains in England. In the one country 16 deaths in every 100 are due to violence, in the other, 6 only. The effects of climatic and sanitary conditions may also be traced in the varying percentages of deaths in the various classes of disease, and these would have been made more apparent had the miasmatic, diarrhœal, and some of the local diseases been exhibited in detail.
We now come to Table III., which exhibits the average annual death rates for the ten years, 1855-94, for both sexes and from various causes to 10,000 living at the groups of ages already mentioned. To arrive at these death rates the mean population of males and females for the period and for each of the groups of ages had to be calculated from the census returns of 1886 and 1891. The same methods were employed and the same care exercised as in arriving at the mean populations on which the tables of mortality are based, and we are of opinion that the estimated numbers living at each group of ages, as given at the top of each column, are substantially correct, and that the death rates derived from them may be accepted with considerable confidence as representing what has been actually experienced during the last 10 years.
For the purpose of enabling an easy comparison being made in the death rates due to any disease, in the two sexes, the rates for females are given immediately under those for mates, and arc printed in a different type. It is hoped that this arrangement will be found more convenient to those who may consult it than if the death rates for the two sexes had been exhibited in separate tables.