Annual Report Relating To The Registry And Return Of Births Marriages And Deaths In Michigan For The Year 1893 PDF Download

Excerpt from Twenty-Seventh Annual Report Relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages and Deaths in Michigan: For the Year 1893 The present report, while delayed several months by the press of legislative work at the State printing ofice, makes its appearance at an earlier date than any registration report that has been issued since the report for the year 1869, - for which year the volume of the returns was only half as great as at present. It is not, therefore, the fault of the State Department, which is charged with the preparation of the registration report from the transcripts of births, marriages and deaths sent in by the county clerks, that the present report is dated nearly one and one-half years after the close of the year for which the registration was made; nor is it the fault of the county clerks, who, as a rule have made their returns with unusual promptness; nor of the supervisors, who, in turn, have reported to the county clerks at the usual time, as required by the regis tration law, the results of their enumeration of births and deaths taken at the time of taking the annual assessment. The onus for the delay, which so largely detracts from the interest and practical value of these reports, rests solely upon the present inadequate registration law, which was passed in 1867 at a time when the essential features of a prompt and accurate registration system were less thoroughly understood than at present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.