Annual Report on the Vital Statistics of Massachusetts: Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths..., Svazek 6,Díly 1847–1851

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Strana 35 - ... places of birth of the parties, the residence of each, the age and color of each, the condition of each, (whether single or widowed) the occupation, the names of the parents, and the date of the record...
Strana 35 - In the record of births, the date of the birth, the place of birth, the name of the child, (if it have any,) the sex and color of the child, the names and...
Strana 37 - The secretary shall cause the returns received by him for each year to be bound together in one or more volumes with indexes thereto.
Strana 122 - The means of preventing them are as much under the power of human reason and industry as the means of preventing the evils of lightning or common fire.
Strana 36 - ... the occupation, birthplace and name of their parents, and the time of recording, so far as the same can be ascertained. The record of deaths shall state the date of...
Strana 36 - Each of such arbitrators shall be entitled to receive from the treasury of the city or town in which the controversy...
Strana 35 - ... and bride. The record of births shall state, in separate columns, the date of the birth, the name of the child, (if it have any,) the sex...
Strana 55 - This is an oft-repeated remark, but in our judgment may be easily answered. Statistics may be defined as the science or art of applying facts to the elucidation and demonstration of truth. It is the basis of social and political economy, and the only sure ground on which the truth or falsehood of theories can be brought to the test. Mere columns of figures may or may not be statistics. They form, in any case, a small part only of the illustration. Combination and deduction are required to give them...
Strana 36 - Every justice, minister and clerk, or keeper of the records of the meeting wherein any marriages among the Friends or Quakers shall be solemnized, shall make a record of each marriage solemnized before him, together with all the facts relating to...
Strana 88 - Registrar-General measures the robustness of national vigor, or probes the depth of national suffering. Backed by those ranks of expressive figures, which permit no exaggeration, and are susceptible of no fallacy, he presents to us a true picture of the present condition of our country and nation.

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