Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Seventy-Seventh Annual Report on the Vital Statistics of Massachusetts: Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths, for the Year 1918
Source of Data. The birth statistics presented in this report are compiled from the certified copies of the records of births recorded In each city and town and transmitted annually to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. The original information from which birth statistics are derived is obtained from physicians, midwives, parents, householders, superintendents of hospitals and institutions, and birth canvassers.
The statutes of the Commonwealth provide that city and town clerks shall receive or Obtain and record certain facts relative to births in their city or town, the intent of this law obviously being to require the clerks to obtain the facts if they do not receive them.
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