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

  • Warner, Oliver, 1818-1885.
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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    ^^mmoniueall!] flf llassstl]ttsdls. Seceetary's Office, Boston, May 1,1868. To the Clerk of the Town of _. Sir:—I herewith transmit to you a copy of a new edition of Instriictions concerning the Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths, accompanied with some suggestions intended to facihtate the duties of tlie Town Clerks, as well as to promote accuracy of registration. The experience of past years has made it sufficiently evident, that for the effective operation of our Registra- tion System, we must depend more upon the energy and industry of the Town Clerks than upon any or all other means. To no others is the subject so familiar, or the duties connected therewith so appropriate. Intelligence and efficiency are theirs* they are known and responsi- ble, and readily accessible to communication from the central office* not inconveniently numerous, and likely to be sufficiently interested in the subject to labor for perfect accuracy. Attempts to aid the Town Clerk by the transfer of any great share of the responsibility to others^ are likely rather to increase his difficulties and impair the value of the results attained. Because few others will feel equal interest in the work, or enjoy such facilities for its performance as the Town Clerks, while responsibility of this kind is liable, when subdivided