Excerpt from Twenty-Third 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, 1864 Comparison with the average for five years, Natural increase of population, Ratio of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, to persons living, Average number of the same daily, Rate per cent. Of the same to persons living, . Comparison of returns for 1860 with those for 1864, Evident disturbance from war influences, Diminution and increase in certain Counties, Average age at death. 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.