It would appear from the above that in Boston the numbers of the two classes of mixed marriages are nearly equal, while in the rest of the State the success of foreign grooms in winning American brides is very much greater. In Berkshire we find forty-three of this class of marriages, with only fifteen instances of an American groom and foreign bride. The domestication of foreign agricultural laborers in the homes of American farmers may be a cause of this.

NATIVITY OF PERSONS Married during Seven Years. Numbers.

1850. 1860. 1861. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1865.

6,575 7,144 6,330

11,475 12,404 10,972 11,014 10,873 12,513 13,051 6,871 6,670 7,574 7,776

Whole number, 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00

American,

58.83 58.86 58.58 63.93 62.10 60.53 59.87

DEATHS.

The registered number of deaths in Massachusetts for 1865, together with the numbers and average for the preceding five years, are given in the following table:

DEATHS registered in Massachusetts. Numbers.

The number it will be seen is 2,571 less than last year, and 1,599 less than the year before, although greater than the average for five years, by 1,008. In these figures the stillborn are

excluded.

The close of the war is doubtless the cause of the diminished mortality in 1865.

The death-rate for the year, based on the census of 1865, is as follows:

The following table of death-rates for the past five years is based on the United States census of 1860, and the State census of 1865, with a proportionate allowance of the difference for each year :

The following table is intended to show the comparative healthfulness of different regions as well as of the several counties.

The divisions are those proposed by Dr. Josiah Curtis in the report for 1857, and have been continued since that year. As they follow geographical sections broadly distinguished by nature, they furnish a more useful basis of comparison than the division by counties. They are thus described by Dr. Curtis: "The first division embraces the metropolis, which, in density of population and other particulars differs from any other section of the State; the second embraces the northern portion of the sea-coast section, which is quite thickly settled; the third is the southern sea-coast district, and is mostly low land, compared with other regions; the fourth is more elevated, and embraces that midland region. between the sea-coast district and the valley of the Connecticut River; the fifth includes the valley, or lands drained by streams entering the river on either side; the sixth covers the hills of Berkshire, and, as a whole, comprises the most elevated region, as well as that which is farthest from the sea-coast."

DEATHS registered in Divisions and Counties for 1865. Rates.

An examination of the above table shows that while twentyfour in a thousand died in the city of Boston, eighteen in a thousand died in the western division. The other divisions show but slight differences, and correspond very nearly with the rate for the whole State.

The counties stand thus in order of healthfulness: Barnstable, Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, Norfolk, Middlesex, Bristol, Hampshire, Worcester, Essex, Plymouth, and Suffolk. In Dukes and Nantucket the figures are so small as to be of no value in this regard.

The death-rate in some of the principal cities and towns stands as follows, based upon the population of 1865 :

Seasons. It will be seen that the quarters succeed each other in the following order: third, fourth, first, second. This is in accordance with the almost invariable rule.

The months succeed each other in the order of mortality thus: September, August, October, March, July, April, February, January, November, May, December and June.

Sex. In this respect the year shows a very different result from the three preceding. The proportion of male to female deaths was as 100-47 to 100-13,085 males and 13,024 females.

In 1862, the proportions were 107 males to 100 females.

For many previous years the proportions were about 100 males

to 101 females.

This is another evidence that we are about returning to the same relations which existed previous to the war.

DEATHS in Massachusetts for 1865. Ages, Sex, Rates.