Annual report - vital statistics of Massachusetts. (title varies)

Massachusetts. Dept. Of Public Health

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-^jg<»^ JTOAM^.tREGISTRY AND RETURNS
AND DEATHSBIRTHS, MARRIAGES
MASSACHTJSETTS.THIRD
ANNUAL REPORT
TO THE
LEGISLATURE ,
RELATING TO
THE REGISTRY AND RETURNS
OF
MARRIAGES AND DEATHSBIRTHS,
MASSACHUSETTS.
ENDING MAY 1ST, 1844FOR THE YEAR
BY JOHN G. PALFREY,
THE COMMONWEALTH.SECRETARY OF
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December, 18 4 4:.
]Joj:iton:
DUTTON AND WENTWORTH, STATE PRINTERS
1845.:
Commontotaltl) of M^^f^iitifxtntttn.
Secretary's Office: December, 1844.
7 o the Honorable Senate
and House Representativesof
present followingI have the honor to the Report of proceed-
"agreeably to the Act of 1844 (chapter relatingings had 159)
to the Registry and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths."
the passage of theImmediately upon Act, measures were
taken to procure the blank books for registration required by
the seventh section. In the month of May they were ready
for delivery, and were forwarded by the earliest opportunities
towns. pages of the Registersto the The were ruled in col-
umns so as to receive entries of the various particulars required
by the law. They are of good paper, and in durable binding.
They are of four different sizes, to correspond in some degree
of the respective towns. furnishedto the population The books
to the smallest corporations will probably not be filled in ten
years the others will need to be sooner renewed. Three Reg-
;
isters were furnished to the city of Boston, for Births, Mar-
riages and Deaths, respectively. The whole cost of the vol-
umes was six hundred and fifty dollars.
The law was published in the official newspaper immediate-
ly upon its enactment. On the 15th of April, I addressed a
circular letter to the town clerks, communicating a copy of the
followslaw, and then proceeding as :
" observe, containsThis act, you will the provision that it
shall and after its passage.take effect from You will accord-VI
returningly, in conformity to the first section, make your next
in June, instead of May, as heretofore.to this office
It may seem to you, at first view, that there is a discrepancy
the law in respect to the hmit of the registration year. Thein
first section directs the clerks to transmit, in June, a record
' of Births, Marriages and Deaths which have occurred within
next preceding thetheir respective towns during the year first
said mouthy' while the second section directs the schoolday of
'May, of all the birthscommittees annually to make returns in
during the year next preceding thewhich have happened first
day said May.'' The latter provision is so express as toof
intended in respect to birthsleave no doubt of what was ; and
the intention of the Legislature that the reg-it was evidently
istration year should have the same limits for marriages and
Further : the law, when it directs thedeaths as for births.
make their returns to the Secretary in Jiine^ leavesclerks to
daysthem at liberty to make it in the first of that month, at
time the latest returns of marriages and deaths in theirwhich
as took place in April. Accordingly,possession will be of such
your annual return to this office will include births, marriages
'the year next preceding the firstdayand deaths happening in
May:of
According to the terms of the act, your returns of all births,
should include all the particulars speci-&c., since its joassage^
blanks which I thisday transmit to you. It is prob-fied in the
not yet have become known,able, however, that the law may
customary method of publication, to all the officersthrough the
and others on whom it imposes obligations; and that therefore
returns, for the whole year about to close, will prove im-your
perfect in respect to particulars not contemplated in the former
You will be pleased, in your return in June next, tomakeact.
blanks as full as your materials permit. In theentries in the
closer to completenessnext year a much approximation may be
looked for.
census isIn respect to births^ however, of which the required
by the law to be made by the school committee in the month
of May, it may be expected that your return will be full. To
this end it is desirable should, without delay, conferthat you:
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with the school committee of your town on the subject, that
some efficient plan of opera-they may seasonably decide on
1 send you duplicate blanks for returns of births, onetions.
other return tofor the committee's return to you, the for your
this office.
blanks for returns of marriages and deaths, which IThe
you according totransmit at the same time, can be enlarged by
the length of the return.
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I respectfully ask your careful attention and aid in carrying
per-out the designs of the Legislature. You will not fail to
immediate exertion on the partceive the great importance of
of the town clerks calling the attention of those from whomin
they are to receive reports, to the duty enjoined on them by
the law.*'
circularAlong with the Registers, the following letter was
sent to the Town Clerks
'•Sir,—Herewith you will receive a blank book, prepared for
the record required by the Act of March 16th, 1844, to be
made of Births, Marriages and Deaths, by the town clerk of
In the beginning of the volume you will find a copy of the
Act. The blank space on the reverse of the page maybe used
for entering any laws hereafter made in relation to the subject.
You will observe that you are to enter only births, marriages
and deaths, taking place in your oicn town. These events in
families of your citizens, if they do not occur within your town
limits, do not belong to your record.
The ruled columns contain spaces for a few classes of entries,
which you are not required by law to make, viz : one for the
name of the under all the heads; one for the ylaceinformant^
interment^ under the head of deaths : and spaces for theof
•place hirth of the parties, and the occvpation and residenceof
o/ ^/teirjtyare??^5, under that of marriages. As to filling these
information for that purpose, the clerksspaces, and soliciting
are of course at liberty to be governed by their own judgment.
The blank in the line at the head of each left hand page of
the Register will receive the entry, required by law, of theVI11
pages for thebirths, &c., occur, iiut in the re-place in which
also column headed place birlhs^ inbirths, tliere is a ofcord of
particularly of laigc towns, or of such assome clerks,whicli
to enter ihc jjartsdifferent villages, may be inclinedcontain of
respectively took place.town in which the birthsthe
suggest that, in the entry of diseases under theI respectfully
to adopt the popular names.of deaths, it will be besthead
on the whole, to afford the best basis forThese are thought,
to bearrangement, which ought made, when thethe scientific
into tables.returns come to be collected
town clerk should take care that his signa-Each successive
hand page of the Register,head of each rightture, at the
entries than what have been made bystands over no other
himself
to carry outthat your best exertions will be usedTrusting
Legislature in establishing this system,the objects of the
I have the honor to be," &c.
Returns of Births have been received from 288 towns, of
and of Deaths from 281 towns.Marriages from 289 towns,
20 towns without returns of births, 19 townsThere remain
without returns of marriages, and 27 towns without returns of
the two districts of Boston Corner and Marshpee.deaths, besides
not made within the time pre-A portion of the returns were
few were made so late as to occasionscribed by law; and a
trouble in the preparation of the Tables.much extra
returns are more or less imperfectA large portion of the in
particulars required by law. A great part of thissome of the
is fully explained by the fact that, when the lawimperfection
already too late to obtain, for this regis-went into effect, it was
of the particulars required by it. For thetration yea.r, many
most part the town clerks have shown a commendable inter-
in some instances they have taken greatest in the object, and
pains to carry the law fully into effect. Also, in some in-
committees have used great diligence instances, the school
their department to collect information respecting the births.
are noticed in the marginal notesiSome of the imperfections
to the Tables ; and in a few instances commendation is there