Annual Report on the Vital Statistics of Massachusetts: Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths..., Volum 18,Part 1859

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Pàgina cxliii - Any physician having attended a person during his last illness, shall — when requested within fifteen days after the decease of such person — forthwith furnish for registration a certificate of the duration of the last sickness, the disease of which the person died, and the date of his decease, as nearly as he can state the same.
Pàgina 49 - Within the shores of these islands the twenty-eight million of people dwell who have not only supplied her armies, and set her fleets in motion, but have manufactured innumerable products, and are employed in the investigation of scientific truths, and the creation of works of inestimable value to the human race. These people do not live out half their days ; a hundred and forty thousand of them die every year unnatural deaths...
Pàgina 12 - ... of the results of a year or of a period of years, as compared with other periods, and deduce the profit or the loss which has been made in morals, education, wealth or power.
Pàgina cxlii - ... have any,) the sex and color of the child, the names and the places of birth of the parents, the occupation of the father, the residence of the parents, and the date of the record...
Pàgina cxlii - Parents shall give notice to the clerk of their city or town of the births and deaths of their children ; every householder shall give like notice of every birth and death happening in his house ; the...
Pàgina cxliii - ... duty required of him by this chapter. SECTION 8. The superintendents of the State almshouses at Tewksbury, Bridgewater, and Monson, shall obtain, record, and make return of the facts in relation to the births and deaths which occur in their respective institutions, in like manner as is required of town clerks. The clerks of said towns shall, in relation to the births and deaths of persons in said almshouses, be exempt from the duties otherwise required of them by this chapter. SECTION 9. The...
Pàgina 5 - February, transmit to the secretary of the Commonwealth, certified copies of the records of the births, marriages, and deaths, which have occurred therein during the year ending on the last day of the preceding December. SECTION 6. The record of the town clerk relative to any birth, marriage, or death, shall be prima facie evidence, in legal proceedings, of the facts recorded.
Pàgina 30 - MX. and tliat write their names in the national returns, throws more light on the permanent results of elementary education than any other test that has yet been devised. That view of the matter is now taken by foreign statists ; and this interesting item appears for the first time in the French returns. It is a remarkable fact that, exclusive of the metropolitan cities, in England and France nearly the same proportion, 34 in every 100 of the men who marry, do not write their names in signing the...
Pàgina 23 - The number of coloured births was one less than the number of marriages, and the deaths exceeded the births in the proportion of nearly two to one.
Pàgina cxlii - ... of the child, the names and the places of birth of the parents, the occupation of the father, the residence of the parents, and the date of the record ; In the record of marriages, the date of the marriage, the place of marriage, the name, residence, and official station of the person by whom married, the names and the places of birth of the parties, the residence of each, the age and color of each...

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