Excerpt from Thirty-Fourth 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, 1875 Births. Number in past twenty years - Table, Birth-rate in 1875, and in previous nine years, Birth rates of foreign countries, Birth-rates in the counties, ten yea1s - Table, Birth-rates in the chief cities, 1875 - Table, . Quarterly rates - Table, Births m periods of six months - Table, Births - Proportion of the sexes, twenty four years - Table, Proportion of the sexes in each county, 1875 - Table, Parentage - Table, Percentage of American and foreign births, ten yea1s - Table, Percentages f01 twenty -seven years - Table, Comments on the preceding tables, Plural births, Illegitimates, Still-born, marriages. Numbers and rates in eleven years - Table, Marriage-rates of European countries, Marriage-rates of the counties, ten years - Table, Marriage-rates of the chief cities, 1875 - Table, Quarterly aggregates and percentages - Table, Ages at marriage - Table, Social or conjugal condition - Table. 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.