VOL. XII. Report of Contested Elections (no report in 1896), Report of Massachusetts Highway Commission, Doc. No. 37 25 11 48 38 39 50 53 54 57 45 Report of Metropolitan Water Board, . FIFTY-FIFTH REPORT OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS IN THE COMMONWEALTH; RETURNS OF LIBELS FOR DIVORCE, AND RETURNS OF DEATHS INVESTIGATED BY THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS, FOR THE YEAR 1896. PREPARED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. EDITED BY FRANCIS A. HARRIS, M. D. BOSTON : WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 18 POST OFFICE SQUARE. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, BOSTON, Oct. 28, 1897. To the Honorable Senate and the House of Representatives. I have the honor to submit herewith, as required by law, the Fifty-fifth 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, 1896; 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 1896. The rule adopted in the report of 1891 of 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 report is again edited by FRANCIS A. HARRIS, M.D. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, WM. M. OLIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth. CONTENTS. Page 1.- GENERAL ABSTRACT. Population State Census of 1895. - Births, Mar riages, and Deaths registered in each county and town in 1896, distin- II. BIRTHS registered in 1896, by counties, by months, and by sex, A.- Supplement. - Plurality Births registered in 1896, by counties and STILL-BORN registered in 1896, by counties and by sex, 18 19 - V. - MARRIAGES registered in 1896, by counties and by age periods, 20 22 25 and in the State in 1896, also population of 1895, and Percentages of 28 IX. CAUSES OF DEATH, 1896, nosologically arranged, by months, by age, and by sex, X.-CAUSES OF DEATH, 1896, nosologically classified, by counties,. XI. DEATHS FROM SEVERAL SPECIFIED CAUSES, 1896, by counties and by towns, 64 DIVORCES. I. DIVORCES, State and counties, by statute causes, 1896, II. CAUSES OF DEATH, classified and arranged, by months, ages, and sex, . 101 EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS, 111 |