SIXTY-THIRD REPORT

OF

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

IN

MASSACHUSETTS,

RETURNS OF LIBELS FOR DIVORCE, AND RETURNS OF DEATHS INVESTIGATED BY THE

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, BOSTON, Dec. 30, 1905.

To the Honorable Senate and the House of Representatives.

I have the honor to submit herewith, as required by law, the Sixty-Third Annual Registration Report, relating to the births, marriages and deaths occurring in Massachusetts and registered in the several cities and towns during the year ending Dec. 31, 1904, and containing, also, the reports relating to libels for divorce in the several counties, and the returns of deaths the causes and manner of which have been investigated by the medical examiners during the year 1904.

In tabulating returns of births and deaths still-births are not included. The only record of still-births appears in Table III.

The nosological arrangement of the tables of deaths in this report is what is known as the International Classification of Causes of Death, prepared under the supervision of William A. King, Chief Statistician for Vital Statistics, and adopted by the t'nited States Census Office for the compilation of mortality statistics, and the nomenclature is printed at the end of this report. This subject is further treated in the editorial obser

vations.

The rule adopted in the report of 1891, restricting the exhibition of tabular results to such as are plainly of practical utility within the meaning of the statute by authority of which the tables are prepared, is continued, and the editorial work has again been entrusted to Francis A. HARRIS, M.D.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. M. OLIX,

Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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I. - GENERAL ABSTRACT. - Population State Census of 1900.- Births,

Marriages and Deaths registered in each county and town in 1904,

distinguishing sex and parentage of Births, nativity of the Mar-

ried, and sex, nativity, and average age of Decedents,

II. - BIRTHS registered in 1904, by counties, by months, and by sex, .

A. — Supplement. — Plurality Births, by counties and by sex,

B.-Supplement. - Triplet Births, by counties and by sex,

C.-Supplement. - Births in each city, in group of towns over

5,000 population, and in group of towns under 5,000 popu-

lation, by sex,

III.

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STILL-BORN registered in 1904, by counties and by sex,

IV. - MARRIAGES registered in 1904, by counties and by months,
V. - MARRIAGES registered in 1904, by counties and by age periods,
VI. MARRIAGES registered in 1904, by ages and conjugal condition,.
VII. - DEATHS registered in 1904, by counties, by months and by sex, .

VIII. - DEATHS exhibiting the age and sex of Decedents registered in each

county and in the State in 1904, also population of 1900, and per-

centages of Deaths to Population,

.

A.-Supplement. - Deaths in each city, by age and sex,

B.-Supplement. - Deaths in group of towns over 5,000 popula-

tion, by age and sex,

lation, by age and sex,

C.-Supplement. - Deaths in group of towns under 5,000 popu-

IX. CAUSES OF DEATH, 1904, nosologically arranged, by months, by age,

X. CAUSES OF DEATH, 1904, nosologically classified, by counties,
XI.-DEATHS FROM SPECIAL CAUSES, 1904, by counties and by towns,
XII. - DEATHS, AGED 100 YEARS OR MORE in 1904,

DIVORCES, 1904.

II. CAUSES OF DEATH, classified and arranged by months, ages, and sex,

EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS,

STATISTICAL NOSOLOGY,