Excerpt from Thirty-Ninth Report to the Legislature of Massachusetts Relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Commonwealth: For the Year Ending December 31, 1880 In Table 11 the proportion of male births to female is shown to be very constant. It is in excess in all countries, and is par tially compensated for by the greater liability to death. Still births naturally occur oftener in male children, their greater size exposing them to greater dangers; while the proportion of either sex among illegitimate children is, so far as we know, more or less accidental. 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.