Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-07-19
The Sexes North and South.
SOME VALUABLE STATISTICS IN REGARD
TO MEN AND WOMEN.
iPhiadalnhia Times

SOME VALUABLE STATISTICS IN REGARD
TO MEN AND WOMEN.
philadelphia Times]
In 1880 there were 50,000,000 people in
this country, and about $4,000 more males
than females. That was only because more
males were born; the females live the long
est. Of the centenarians 400 were men
and 2,907 were women. The boys start out
nearly 100000 ahead, are in the majority
until the sixteenth year, when the girls are
a little more numerous. Sweet sixteen is a
numerous age, anyhow. After that first
one and then the other is in the majority,
the girls gradually gaining after thirty-six
and leaving the men far behind after seven
ty-five. To balance this longevity Of the
females in almost every State few more
boys are born; not many more, but always
a few. 1t is astonishing to see where the
census gives thousands and hundreds of
thousands OF boys and girls under one year
old there are, with one OF two exceptions,
always few hundred more boys, and only
a few hundred more.
In only SIX of the f0rty-nine States and
Territories are more girls born, and in these
States they are slightly in excess from
eleven to eighty, These exceptions are
Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana,
Montana and North Carolina. The fact
that the females are in the majority in all
the original thirteen States, but Delaware
and North Carolina, especially in Massa-
chusetts and New England, has created the
impression that there is something in the
climate or in the people that produces more
women than men. This is d popular but
egregious error. In Massachusetts there
were in 1880, 437 more boys than girls under
one year of age.
The males are in the minority in almost
all the Eastern States, because many of the
young men go West. All over the West
there is an excess Of men, and those who
are not foreigners have been withdrawn
from the States further East. In the new
States and Territories this is most notice
able. In Idaho, for instance, there are
twice as many males as females, hut the
male infants are only q little in excess of
the females. The West is drawing heavily
on the manhood Of the East. From this
all the old States have suffered; Massa-
chuSettS seems to have suffered most of
any.
There are parts of Northern Ohio which
are portions Of New England removed.
Massachusetts shows the loss and Ohio
the gain. Another curious fact is that
while over the country more boys than
girls are porn, III The cities and towns there
are more girls. Between the ages of five
and seventeen inclusive there are 1850
more girls than boys in New York county;
2,70s more in Kings county; 2,725 more in
the City of Baltimore; lob In Suffolk
county, Mass, (Boston); 1000 more in
Cook county, ILL.,, Chicago; 2,131 more in
the city of st. Louis; 2,971 more in Phila-
delphia county, and 1888 more in the
parish Of New Orleans. All these cities,
except New Orleans, are in States where
more boys than girls are hoEn
In Georgia there are 1871 counties, and in
all but twenty-six of them there are more
boys than girls. These twenty six counties
include the eleven large towns and cities.
Strange that not one of the cities should
be left out. Stranger still, the excess of
girls is about In proportion to the popula-
ton. Savannah leads off with 52S more
girls than boys Atlanta, 3S5; Augusta,
BOB; Macon, 154; Columbus, 1871; Carriers
vile, ~; Rome, so; Athens, so; Albany,
Is; Griffin, il; and AAmepieus, T. aavan-
nah, though she has a somewhat smaller
population, has a larger excess of girls.
This seems peculiar to old cities. 1t is so
with Baltimore, New Orleans and New
York. The excess is greater in New Or
leans than any where else. Is this a pecu-
liarity of the French? The facts Present |
a fact worth studying. Are there fewer
men i'll the cities than in the country?