Excerpt from Fifty-Second Report of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Commonwealth: Returns of Libels for Divorce, and Returns of Deaths Investigated by the Medical Examiners, for the Year 1893In this report the facts obtained by a review of the statistics are stated concisely, and the comparisons made are similar to those [made in former reports, without the publication of masses of figures which inspection has shown to be not wholly free from error.The size of the report for the year 1895 will undoubtedly be much larger, and contain many more tables of comparative statistics. It may be fairly said, however, that the reduction of the size of the report in the non-census years has commended itself to the people of the State.To any one unfamiliar with the work of the preparation of a report like this, the difficulty of a complete avoidance of error would seem almost incredible, yet this difficulty is attested by most if not all of the former registration reports. It may be said of the report for the year 1893 that the figures and com parisons have been made with the greatest care, and that they have been reviewed by an able and experienced statistician wholly familiar with vital statistics, and it is hoped that the report is free from error.The same care was exercised in the report for 1892, yet in spite of it the editor is obliged to admit the discovery of two slight errors after the report was issued. These errors are corrected in the report for this year.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.