| West Australia | .. | .. | .. | 48 | 51 | 42 | | Tasmania | .. | 44 | 38 | 46 | 57 | .. | | New Zealand | 23 | 29 | 32 | 38 | 44 | 45 | +------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Table I. gives the number of illegitimate births per 1000 births in various countries of the world for quinquennial periods. It is to be noted that still-born births are excluded, as in the United Kingdom (contrary to the practice prevailing in most European countries) registration of such births is not compulsory. The United States is omitted, as there is no national system of registration of births. This method of measuring illegitimacy by ascertaining the proportion of illegitimate births in every thousand births is a fairly accurate one, but there is another valuable one which is often applied, that of comparing the number of illegitimate births with each thousand unmarried females at the child-bearing age the "corrected" rate as opposed to the "crude," as it is usually termed. This is given for certain countries in Table II. TABLE II.--_Illegitimate Births to 1000 Unmarried and Widowed Females, aged 15-49 years._ +------------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------+ | Country. |1846-55.|1856-65.|1866-75.|1876-85.|1886-95.|1896-1905.| +------------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------+ | England and Wales| 17 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 8 | | Scotland | .. | 22 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 13 | | Ireland | .. | .. | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | | Denmark | .. | 28 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 23 | | Sweden | 20 | 22 | 23 | 22 | 22 | .. | | Germany | .. | .. | .. | 28 | 27 | 26 | | Netherlands | .. | .. | 10 | 9 | 9 | 6 | | Belgium | 16 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 17 | 17 | | France | 15 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 18 | | Italy | .. | .. | .. | 24 | 24 | 19 | +------------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------+