CONTENTS.

Population, 1881.

Births, Marriages and Deaths, with the population and rates, 1850-80

Birth, Marriage and Death rates for twenty years compared with those
of several foreign countries -Table

Marriages, Births and Deaths, rates for periods ending with census

years- Table

Births, Marriages and Deaths in each county and town for ten years,

1871-80- Table.

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Births, 1865-81, and Births in 1880-81 by counties- Table

Births and Birth-rates according to population — Table

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Births and Birth-rates, by months and quarters, 1881 - Table

Births, by months, quarters, and periods of six months, fifteen years

- Table

Births-Proportion of the sexes, twenty-nine years -

Proportion of Males, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, and the previous nineteen

years - Table

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Parent Nativity

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Parentage of children born in the several counties during the year 188

Parentage - Plurality cases Table

Parentage-Illegitimate Births - Table

Percentage of American and Foreign Births in 1881 and in each of pre-
vious ten years - Table

Percentage of American and Foreign Births, averages, by quinquennial

periods, 1849-1881- Table

Births in each of the twenty years, 1862-81, sex and parentage

Parentage of plural Births, eighteen years, 1864-81 — Table

Plural Births, eighteen years

Illegitimate Births in each of past twenty years
Illegitimate Births, nativity of mothers, eighteen years
Still-born in 1881

MARRIAGES.

Number and rates in twenty-seven years, 1855-81- Table

Marriages, by counties, 1876-81

Marriages and Marriage-rates for census years 1865, 1870, 1875 and

1880, according to population - Table

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Marriages, by months and quarters, 1881— Table.

Marriages quarterly for ten years

Ages at Marriage - Table

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Average ages at Marriage, eleven years, 1871-81-

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Social or conjugal condition of persons married in 1881-

Percentages of first and subsequent Marriages in last eleven years

Table.

Certain Marriages in 1881 - Table

Nativity of persons married, 1863-81-percentages ·

Proportion of native to foreign born persons married -

DEATHS.

Summary comparison

Deaths and Death-rates for thirty-one years, 1851-81, and annual mean
of quinquennial periods — Table

Deaths, 1865-80, and Deaths in 1880-81, by counties Table

Deaths and Death-rates in six geographical divisions - Table

Deaths, 1880-81, and Death-rates according to population, the past

Table

Deaths in each month and quarter of the year Table

Percentages of deaths, by quarters, eleven years, 1871-81 -

Sex, Mortality of Males and Females compared - Table

Deaths at different ages, 1881 - Table

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Deaths at different ages - percentages - ten years

Deaths at different ages, ten years, 1872-81- - Table

Deaths, 1880-81, and Death-rates at specified ages, sixteen years, 1865-

Deaths classified as to causes, ten years - percentages Table

Deaths from prominent zymotic diseases, ten years - Table

Constitutional diseases

Deaths from principal local diseases, ten years

Deaths from chief developmental diseases, ten years -

Violent Deaths, ten years Table.

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Deaths from specified prominent causes, 1881- Table

Percentage of total mortality from five chief causes, by counties, 1881

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Deaths from most destructive five causes, by ages, in 1881

Deaths from several specified causes, sex, month, and

Percentage of Deaths from several specified causes, 1881

Deaths from specified, causes last nineteen years - Table

Percentage of same- Table

Deaths from brain disorders, twenty-two years, 1860-81— Table .
Deaths and Death-rates from brain disorders in last five census years.
Cancer

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Cholera infantum - Mortality from same, ten years Table
Diarrhoeal diseases, ten years, 1872-81- Table

Deaths from same, by months and quarters, in 1881

Deaths from same, by sex and age- Table

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Deaths from diphtheria and croup, twenty-five years- - Table

Deaths from diphtheria and croup, by counties, 1881 — Table

Deaths from diphtheria and croup, by months and quarters, in 1881

Table.

Deaths from same, twenty-two years, 1860–81 · Table

Pneumonia

Deaths from same, twenty years, 1862-81 Table

Small-pox.

Deaths from same, 1852-81 Table

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Deaths from same by age, sex and season, 1871-80- Table

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Deaths from same, by counties and towns during the ten years 1871-

80- Table.

I. GENERAL ABSTRACT.- Population of 1880.- Births, Mar-
riages, and Deaths registered in each county and town

in 1881, distinguishing sex and parentage of Births,
nativity of the Married, and sex and average age of
Decedents.

II. BIRTHS registered in 1881, by counties, by months, and by

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A.- Supplement - Plurality Births registered in 1881, by

counties, by months, and by sex

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B.- Supplement — Illegitimate Births registered in 1881, by

counties, by months, and by sex

IIL-STILL-BORN registered in 1881, by counties, by months, and

by sex

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IV. MARRIAGES registered in 1881, by counties and by months

V.- MARRIAGES as registered in 1881, by ages and conjugal con-

ditions

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VI. DEATHS registered in 1881, by counties, by months, and by

VII.- DEATHS, exhibiting the age and sex of Deaths registered in

each county and town in 1881; also Population of 1880

and Ratio of Deaths to Population.

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VIII. CAUSES OF DEATH, 1881, alphabetically arranged, by months,

ages, and sex

IX.- CAUSES OF DEATH, 1881, nosologically classified, by counties,

Note to preceding

X.-COMPARATIVE MORTALITY-Causes of Death for thirty-nine

years; also for the last five years, nosologically clas-

sified, with ratios and percentages .

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Note on classification of infantile diseases

XI. CAUSES OF DEATH for each of the twenty-five years, 1857 to

1881, nosologically arranged

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XII.- DEATHS FROM SEVERAL SPECIFIED CAUSES, 1881, by counties

and by towns

XIII.- OCCUPATIONS 1881 and 1843-81-numbers with their aggre-

gate and average ages, registered as having died after

pursuing various specified occupations

XIV.- GENERAL ABSTRACT.- Births, Marriages, and Deaths regis-

tered in each city and town during seventeen years, 1865-

81, stating sex and average age of those deceased in

each county during the period specified.

XV. BIRTHS registered in 1865-81, by counties, by months, and

by sex

Supplement Plurality Births registered in 1865-80, by

counties, by months, and by sex

XVI. STILL-BORN registered in 1865-81, by counties, by months,

and by sex

XIX. DEATHS registered in 1865-81, by counties, by months, and

by sex

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XX. DEATHS registered in 1865-81, by counties, by age, and by

sex,

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XVII.- MARRIAGES registered in 1865-81, by counties and by months,

XVIII. MARRIAGES registered in 1865-81, by ages, and by social or

conjugal conditions .

LAWS relating to Registry and Returns of Births, Marriages, and

Deaths in Massachusetts

CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, as adopted in the Registration of

Massachusetts .

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FORTIETH REGISTRATION REPORT.

(1881.)

THE average annual rate of increase in the population of Massachusetts from 1870 to 1875 was 2.538 per cent. From 1875 to 1880, it was 1.55 per cent., estimated to have been unevenly distributed over the five years as follows: 0.000; 0-324; 0-599; 2.999; 3-835.

In the three census years 1870, 1875 and 1880 the average of the ratios of the population was 3.98 (4.08; 3.94; 3.93) to the assessed polls. Calculating from the assessed polls of 1881 (469.207), the population for that year, upon the same basis, would be 1,867,444.

In the year 1881, there were recorded 45,220 births, 16,768 marriages and 36,458 deaths; or 1,003 more births, 1,230 more marriages, and 1,166 more deaths than in the previous year. The excess of living births over deaths was 8,762, showing a natural increase of births over deaths amounting to 163 less than in 1880.

The approximate rates for the year are:

This would indicate one child born alive to every 41 persons, one married in each 56, and one death in every 51 living.

The variations in the rates for a period of years are shown in Table 1.