Instructions concerning the registration of births, marriages and deaths in Massachusetts : designed for town clerks and physicians / by Oliver Warner.

  • Oliver Warner
Date:
1868
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Credit: Instructions concerning the registration of births, marriages and deaths in Massachusetts : designed for town clerks and physicians / by Oliver Warner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Uncertain Cases. In cases of injlammalion, hcmorrhag-e, or tumor, be particular to state the part affected. Birthplaces of Parents of Deceased Persons. These should always be stated in the Returns. If no more can be ascertained, state at least whether the parents were ^^American^^ or '•'■Foreign^^ born. Stillborn. Stillborn cases should be returned invariably with Deaths, for the sake of uniformity,—and never with Births. Sex. Care should be taken to give the Sex in all cases of Births and Deaths. But in regard to stillborn cases, special effort will be necessary to prevent a failure. All cases in the Unknown columns are blemishes on the Registration, and to be carefully avoided. Order of Arrangement, [by Months.] It is extremely desirable that, in all the returns sent to this ofEce, of Births as well as Marriages and Deaths, the cases occur- ring in each month should be grouped all together; frst, all in January; second, all in February ; and so on. But it is unnec- essary that the cases should be arranged in the numerical order of the days of the month. Cases op Former Years. The Registration Laws, in strictness, provide only for Returns of Births, Deaths and Marriages occurring during the present (or current) year. Those of a date more distant than three years, and not previously registered, may with propriety be recorded in the town in which they occurred, but need not be transmitted to this office. Jl®^ In some instances, cases of Births or Deaths belonging to January of the present (or coming) year are returned with those of the year last past. The Returns should invariably end ivith December of the year last past; and never be in anticipation of the next year.