Excerpt from Twenty-Seventh 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, 1868 Births. Number for seventeen years Table, Comments on table of births, Births probably not all registered, Births in the several Counties Table Quarterly rates Table, Births in periods of six months Table, Comments on the preceding table, Causes of difference between the first and last half of year, Proportion of the sexes, seventeen years Table, Proportion of the sexes, 1868 Table, Parentage Table Percentages of American and foreign births, twenty years Table, Comments on preceding tables, Plural births, Illegitimates, Stillborn, Stillborn compared with other countries Table, marriages. Number in past five years Table, Quarterly aggregates and percentages Table, Rates by Counties Table, Ages of persons married, 1868 Table, Social or con) ugal condition Table, Percentages of first and subsequent marriages in six years Table, Certain marriages, 1868 Table, Certain other marriages Table, Comments on preceding tables, Nativity of persons married Tables, Comments on preceding tables. 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.