Excerpt from Fifty-Sixth Report of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Massachusetts: Returns of Libels for Divorce, and Returns of Deaths Investigated by the Medical Examiners, for the Year 1897 I have the honor to submit herewith, as required by law, the Fifty-sixth Annual Registration Report, relating to the births, marriages and deaths occurring in Massachusetts and registered in the several cities and towns during the year ending Dec. 31 1897; and containing, also, the reports relating to libels for divorce in the several counties, and the returns of deaths the causes and manner of which have been investigated by the medical examiners during the year 1897. In tabulating returns of births and deaths still-births are not included, this plan having been adopted in the report for 1896. The only record of still-births appears in Table III. The rule adopted in the report of 1891 of restricting the exhibition of tabular results to such as are plainly of practical utility within the meaning of the statute by authority of which the tables are prepared, is continued, and the report is again edited by francis A. Harris, M.D. 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.