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The legitimate and illegitimate births are distributed as follows

The legitimate births show a decrease of 35 and the illegitimate an
increase of 6 on the figures of 1927.
As shown in Table I, 1,404 notifications of births were received by
the Department for 1928 as compared with 1,205 in 1927. Of the total
of notifications, 680 were sent by mid wives, of whom 31 were practising
in the City during 1928.
The following Table shows the number of male and female children
born since 1914, and those who did not survive the first year of life, with
the number of the surviving children at the end of the first year of life:—