Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-25
CENSUS RATIO OF TINE SEXES.
Men in the United States Considerably Out
number the Women

WASHINGTON, May 2i.--There are 800,
900 more men than women in the United
States, or rather 800 900 more male than
female persons, thu census officials IN the
interior department making no discrimina-
ton between rosy youth and grabbed age IN
their computations. If this disparity were
generally distributed throughout the whole
country, ii would make the nitcti States
an exception among civilized countries, IN
nearly all of which women either prepon-
derate or are nearly as numerous as men.
The place of the greatest preponderance
of women in the United States, at the pre-
sent time, is the District of Columbia,
where the ratio in number, as compared
with men, is 10 to 100. Then comes
Massachusetts, l05 TO 1907 then Rhode
Island, l05 to 100, and then, in the order
named, North Carolina and Maryland, lOa
to 100; Connecticut, New Hampshire,
New York, South Carolina and Virginia,
l0l to 100. In New York state, the excess
of women over men il A 900. In New
York City there are 20 900, and in Brook
lyn there are Il, 900 more women than
men.
In two states the number of male and fe-
male persons is Substantially the same
New Jersey and Louisiana. These were
the figures in Louisiana i'll 1890; male,
$50 $50: female, $50 ,231.
In seven Southern states, Alabama,
Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Delaware and West Virginia; in two West
| ern states, Ohio and Indiana; in two New
England states Maine and Vermont. and
| in Penny lvania the male population out
| numbers the female population in the pro-
portion OF 100 To 80
| In Illinois the proportion of women to
men is "a per cent; in Florida and Mis-
souri,, 49, ia WISCONSIN, Iowa and Arkan-
sas, 90 and in Michigan, Texas and Kan
sas, 30. In Minnesota it is 81. in Nebraska,
"a. In South Dakota, 50, and in North
Dakota, so.
In other states the proportion of female
inhabitants fall below IS per cent. of thu
number of male inhabitants. In California
i'll consequence of the large number OF
| Cinnamon engaged in domestic service, AID
in consequence of the absence OF Chinese
women the percentage is ~. In Oregon
! for the same reason 1t is ~.
In Colorado and Idaho where the mining
interests are extensive and the hardships of
| existence outside of the chief cities out
weigh the conveniences, it is IS and GA re-
speetively. In Washington among the
lumber camps it is 60 per cent. In va';i
among the mines ii is sc, in Wyoming -
and in Montana so
The male birth rate is higher than liz
semale birth rate in about the proportion of
| 100 to 81, AMI the male emigration to tIn
United States from European countries ln,.
for many years shown large excess OF
males-more than two-thirds of the rnmh' ,
of recent emigrants being males. undc
these circumstances there should not be !,
preponderance of females in any American
community. Other causes, however, affect
this result adversely,
| The death rate is higher among men than
it is among women. Of deaths from acct
dental causes, violence or public disorder
IS per cent. are male; % per cent. are fe-
male. A majority of the deaths in public
institutions are of males. The duration of
life is generally longer among women.
| They are not addicted to such excuses as
are the men; they are more temperate they
are not SO frequently exposed to injury
from machinery.
They are less migratory and they suffer
less from epidemics and contagious diseases.
| becsuse, generally speaking, they are in
better health and more observant of hygienic
rules The devastati0ns of war have in
most European countries offset the normal
increase of the male population, and in the
United States the deaths due to the civil
war have been, since its close, factor in
establishing deficiency of male persons
in most old neighborhoods.
| But after all. even though the census
| figures do not disclose it, the most notice
able absence of male persons is probably to
be found on the front piazza of the aver
age summer resort hotel between the first
Monday of June and the last Saturday of
the September succeeding.