Excerpt from Thirty-Fourth 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, 1875Population, Rate of increase since 1870, Increase from immigration, Population of the counties, Population of thirteen chief cities, Age-distribution of the population, births. Number in past twenty years - Table, Birth-rate in 1875, and in previous nine years, Birth-rates of foreign countries, Birth-rates in the counties, ten years - Table, Birth-rates in the chief cities, 1875 - Table, Quarterly rates - Table, Births in periods of six months - Table, Births - Proportion of the sexes, twenty - four years - Table, Proportion of the sexes in each county, 1875 - Table, Parentage - Table, Percentage of American and foreign births, ten years - Table, Percentages for twenty-seven years - Table, Comments on the preceding tables, Plural births, Illegitimates, Still-born.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.