Seventy Seventh Annual Report On The Vital Statistics Of Massachusetts

Excerpt from Seventy-Seventh Annual Report on the Vital Statistics of Massachusetts: Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths, for the Year 1918 Source of Data. The birth statistics presented in this report are compiled from the certified copies of the records of births recorded In each city and town and transmitted annually to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. The original information from which birth statistics are derived is obtained from physicians, midwives, parents, householders, superintendents of hospitals and institutions, and birth canvassers. The statutes of the Commonwealth provide that city and town clerks shall receive or Obtain and record certain facts relative to births in their city or town, the intent of this law obviously being to require the clerks to obtain the facts if they do not receive them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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