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Stillbirths.—Thirty-three stillbirths were registered, as required
by the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926, which
came into force on the 1st J uly, 1927.
The excessi of births over deaths for the year was 196.
Births notified.—Eleven hundred and seventy-eight births
(including 245 transferred from other districts and 129 transferred
to other districts) were notified to the Medical Officer of Health
under the Notification of Births Acts. These figures include 38
stillbirths, of which 10 were transferred from other districts and
4 were transferred to other districts. One hundred and thirty
un-notified births were extracted from the Registrar's returns.
Deaths.—The total number of deaths during 1928 was 995
—the death-rate being 11.2 per 1,000 population, the same as
for 1927.

Table B. on page 31 shows the number of deaths due to various
causes during the past eight years. Deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis
show a slight increase, and those from bronchitis a small
decrease. The most striking difference is in deaths from influenza,
which number only 15, as against 54 in 1927.
Infant mortality rate.—There were 73 deaths of infants
under one year of age, including 8 of illegitimate infants, in
1928. This is equal to an infant mortality rate of 61.3 per 1,000
births, the highest rate since 1919. The infant mortality rate of
illegitimate children was 177.7. The infant mortality rate for
England and Wales was 65.