Excerpt from Thirty-Ninth 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, 1880The same comparisons carried through a series of years, in Table 10, shows that in fifteen years 5354 per cent of the births were in the second half of the year, 4646 per cent in the first. There was in the first quarter 2303 per cent, 2343 in the sec 0nd, 2675 in the third, and 12679 in the fourth. The months in order were February, April, January, May, June, March, November, July, September, December, October, August.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.