Unwed mothers had a total of 311 babies in the first four months of this year. 278 of the mothers were Maltese, Health Minister Joseph Cassar said in reply to a parliamentary question this evening.

He said there were 897 births to single mothers in 2007, the numbers rising to 1,044 in the whole of last year.

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