UPON THE

Births, Marriages and Deaths,

IN THE

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND,

FOR THE

YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1886.

PREPARED BY

CHARLES H. FISHER, M. D.,

STATE REGISTRAR OF VITAL STATISTICS; SECRETARY OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

PROVIDENCE:

E. L. FREEMAN & SON, STATE PRINTERS.

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

OFFICE OF THE STATE REGISTRAR OF VITAL STATISTICS,

PROVIDENCE, December, 1887.

To the Honorable the General Assembly:

The Thirty-Fourth Annual Report upon the Births, Marriages and Deaths in Rhode Island is herewith respectfully submitted. The statistics presented are for the year ending December 31, 1886.

The general arrangement of the Tables, Summaries and Comments of the previous year, has been followed, with a few special changes, such as the facts at hand seemed to warrant.

The object has been to present the important facts of many years of registration, as well as of single years, in such manner as to make them readily apparent, and relieve the reader of the statistics, of much of the labor of personal examination of the general Tables, for the purpose of ascertaining the relation the various facts bear to each other.

In the preparation of Table XVIII, acknowledgments are due for indispensable material furnished, by Luigi Bodio, Director General of Statistics of the Kingdom of Italy, (Movimento Dello Stato Civile), and by Sir Rawson W. Rawson, K. C. M. G., C. B., President of the International Statistical Institute and of the Statistical Society, London, Eng. (International Statistics: an Opening Address of the President).

The general results of vital registration, in 1886, are as follows: