Excerpt from Fifty-First Annual Report of the Board of Overseers of the Poor of the City of Boston: February 1, 1914, to January 31, 1915 The number Of families assisted by us in the year was an increase of families from the previous year. Of these 377 families resided in other cities and towns but had retained their settlement in this city, and we received payment for aid rendered to 381 families residing in Boston whose legal settlement was elsewhere. 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.