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

  • Oliver Warner
Date:
1873
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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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    5. Place of Birth or Death. Only the name of the city or town is required, except in case of the largest cities. The names of streets, or districts, or local names other than of the town itself are unnecessary in returns made to this office, though worthy of preservation on the town records. (Whenever a street bears the name of a town of this State it is important that Street or St. be added.) 6. Birthplaces of Parents. These should be always stated in the Returns of Births and Deaths. If no more can be ascertained, state at least whether the parents were ^''American or ^Foreign'''' born. 7. Sex. Care should be taken to give the Sex in all cases of Births and Deaths. All cases in the Unknown columns are blemishes on the Registration, and to be avoided with the utmost care. 8. Stillborn. Stillborn cases should be invariably returned as Deaths, and never with Births, for the sake of uniformity and to pre- vent confusion; and the Sex should always be stated, which will require special attention. 9. Uncertain Cases. In cases of inflammation, hemorrhage, or tumor, be par- ticular to state the part affected. 10. Order of Arrangement [by Months] . It is extremely desirable that, in all the returns sent to this office, of Births as well as Marriages and Deaths, the cases oc- curring in each month should be collected all together; first, all in January; second, all in February ; and so on. But it is un- necessary that the cases should be arranged in the numerical order of the days of the month. An alphabetical arrangement is entirely unnecessary.