The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-13
The Census.
The Record of Men and Women in the
Last Decade.

The new census shows that while the num-
Der OF males exceeds that of females in the
whole country by 9SS,29S, ia many Of the
States notably in the Atlantic region, there is
considerable preponderance of females This
excess of females over males is greatest in the
District Of Columbia where there are but
1854 males to 81 4,0i4 females or in the propor-
tion OF 1851 females, to 100 900 males. In
loio, the proportion in the District Of Colum-
bia was Ill ,764 to 100000 males A lesser pre-
ponderance of females exists in all of the
States extending along the Atlantic coast, with
the exception OF Delaware, where there are
"a, 1853 males to 72,501 females. The proportion
OF females to males in Delaware has decreased
since 1870 when it was 99,Gl5 females to 100000
males, instead of 7,772 females to the 100000
males as at present. In two of the Gulf States
Alabama and Louisiana-there are more
females than males. In the Mississippi VAL
ley the excess is slightly in favor of the male
population, change in the normal condition
OF the population, probably due to the dis
turbing effect of immigration on the natural
proportion of the sexes. The excess OF males
over females is more marked in the Western
Territories and States, where settlement is re-
cent and immigration still active. In Montana
there are 2S, ,0S0 males to 1887 females and in
Arizona there are 28,202 males TO
l2,239 females. The males prepon-
derate in thirty of the States and
Territories, while the number of States in
which females are in excess over males is
seventeen Utah. although a Territory of
comparatively recent settlement, is peopled by
a settled community of farmers having famf-
lies, which fact, taken together with the exis-
tence OF pelygamy, accounts for the close ap-
proach to equality in that territory, the pro-
portion being 74,47O males to 66,43G fe-
males. In New York State the pro
portion of females to males has increased in
the ratio of IA to the 100000 or from 102, SOB to
100000 in 1870 to 102, ,S43 to 100000 in 1880.
The greatest increase in the proportion of fe-
males to males has taken place in IDAHO where
the female population has increased in ten
years $751; bringing the ratio up to 40 46S fe-
males to 10000? males The female increase
has been lowest in Maine, where the proper
tion in 1870 was 100,226 females 10 100000
males, and in 1880 was 100 239 females to 100,
600 males, and the actual excess of females over
males is TT. In Colorado the proportion Of fe-
males to males has decreased from 60,612 fe-
males to 100000 males in 1870 to 50,342
females in 1880. Commenting ON the
reasons for the relative proportion of the
excess in some parts of the South, the report
says, In the south Atlantic and Gulf States
there has been a marked increase in the rela-
change is probably to be found mainly among
the people resident therein, and not in extran-
eous influences. 1t may with confidence be
ascribed to a practical essation of emigration
and to the effort of nature to restore the norm
al equilibrium between the sexes which was
disturbed by the war" This last statement
will amaze scientific men