Registrars Must Make Prompt Returns.-The State Bureau of Vital Statistics is now issuing regular monthly bulletins showing the mortality records of the entire State, and it is essential thať every death certificate which has been received by any local registrar, city clerk or assessor, shall be transmitted to Trenton on or before the fifteenth day of each month, as the law provides. This requirement of the law has been faithfully complied with in nearly all localities, and the delinquent registrars have each been notified. that the penalty for delay will be imposed if future violations occur. Table 50.-Births, Marriages and Deaths, by Counties, Cities, Boroughs and Townships, and Totals for the State, for the Year Ending December 31st, 1906, and Showing Increase and Decrease from Previous Year. * Marriage certificates received from County Clerk in which the places where the marriages were performed are not stated. ** The death-rate in summer resorts is calculated on the basis of the resident population, whereas the actual population is often several times larger, and on account of this floating population and the large number of invalids included in it, the deathrate is not a criterion of health conditions. Decrease. 11 26 12 |