1

7,689

577

7,341

655

7,549

732

6,939

694

6,368

621

6,276

573

2

76

1

75

2

55

1

61

2

53

1

48

1

3

170

5

147

1

151

4

140

3

124

8

134

4

4

629

26

648

25

645

22

603

15

561

10

594

4

5

9

-

13

-

26

5

11

-

9

1

12

1

6

723

29

795

29

767

26

725

32

615

27

630

31

7

74

2

67

2

89

1

67

—

86

—

85

1

8

666

17

633

14

610

19

539

31

500

22

503

20

9

117

8

91

-

106

-

103

2

115

4

127

5

10

1,568

53

1,468

63

1,506

49

1,310

51

1,271

52

1,243

38

11

4

-

6

-

2

—

8

1

2

1

6

—

12

470

19

474

15

439

17

419

24

341

20

336

22

13

274

18

234

27

247

17

235

16

241

20

229

20

14

2,109

356

1,909

427

2,142

519

2,029

474

1,775

427

1,664

398

15

800

43

781

50

764

52

689

43

675

28

665

28

124  P.D.  1.
PART  II.  A.
BIRTH  STATISTICS


PAGE

Introduction  ...............  124-126

Birth  registration       .............  124,  125

Live  births        ..............  125

Birth  rates        ..............  125

Changes  in  birth  rate          ............  125

Stillbirths 125

Birth  rates,  highest  .............  125,  126

Sex  proportion  at  birth       ............  126

Nativity  of  parents  .............  126

Plural  births 126

Natural  increase        .............  126

Statistical  tables 127-134

INTRODUCTION.
Birth  Registration.  —  Like  the  registration  of  deaths,  birth  registration  has
been  compulsory  in  Massachusetts  since  Colonial  times.  It  was  one  of  the  first
States  to  be  included  in  the  registration  area  of  the  United  States  Census  Bureau.
