Excerpt from Fortieth 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, 1881The average annual rate of increase in the population of Massachusetts from 1870 to 1875 was 2538 per cent. From 1875 to 1880, it was per cent., estimated to have been unevenly distributed over the five years as follows: 0000, 0324, 0599 2999, 3835.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.