Excerpt from Seventy-Fifth Annual Report on Births, Marriages and Deaths, Returns of Libels for Divorce and Returns of Deaths Investigated by the Medical Examiners for the Year 1916 Source of Data. The birth statistics presented in this report are compiled from data Obtained by registration by physicians and mid wives, who are required by statute 2 to report the name and place and date of birth to the clerk or registrar of the city or town in which the birth occurred within forty-eight hours after the birth of every child in cases of which they were in charge. The clerk of each city and town is also required 3 to ascertain annually in January certain facts relative to all children born during the preceding year and resident therein. Birth Registration.4 The registration of births is intended to serve two purposes: (1) to identify the child and to establish its age and parentage, and (2) to furnish statistical data. Birth registra tion laws are based upon a public necessity, and were passed for the purpose of enabling citizens to produce competent proof of their. 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.