Excerpt from Thirty-First Report to the Legislature of Massachusetts Relating to the Registry and Return of the Births, Marriages and Deaths, in the Commonwealth: For the Year Ending December 31, 1872

Death-rate for eight years - Table, 23 Deaths in geographical divisions of the State - Table, 23fifi contents.

Page Death-rate in the counties, 1872 - Table, 24 Deaths by quarters of the year - Table, 25 Sex, 25 Proportions of the sexes, twenty-one years - Table, 26 Ages, sex and rates, 1872 - Table, 27 Average age at death, 27 Deaths of persons aged 100 years - Table, 28 Nativity of decedents in 1872-table, 29 Nativity of decedents, nineteen years - Table, 30 Parent-nativity - Table, 31 Deaths of Americans and foreigners at certain ages for six succcessive years Table, 43 causes OF death, 45 The weathei record of 1872 (amherst and Cambridge), 45 Deaths from certain zymotic diseases - Table, 46 Order of succession of ten principal diseases, ten years - Table, 47 Deaths from certain specified causes in 1872 - Table, 49 Percentages of the same - Table, 51 Deaths from certain specified causes, ten years - Table, 53 Percentages of the same - Table, 55 Diphtheria, 57 Dysentery, 57 Measles, 57 Scarlatina, 57 Small-pox, 58 Deaths in the quarters, 59 Ages of decedents, 59 Deaths in the counties, 6o Typhus, 60 Cholera Infantum, 61 Deaths from, Percentages - Table, 61 Dropsy, 62 Consumption, 62 Deaths from, at certain seasons, 62 Deaths from, at certain ages, five years - Table, 62 Deaths from, in the counties, 1872 - Table, 63 Comparative mortality from, by counties, 1872 - Table, 64 Mortality from, during twenty years - Table, 65 Pneumonia, 65 Deaths from, in counties, 1872 - Table, 66 cerebro-spinal Meningitis, 66 Past records of the disease, 67 Deaths in 1872 - Table, 69 Deaths in 1872, in towns, 70 abstracts - 1872.

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