Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-03
CENSUS RA1lo OF TIE SEXES.
.t.n I'm the United states Considerspi.
outnum Der the Women.

n, an. rolteJ states Considerably
outnumbcr the Women.
There are 100000 more men than WON
on in the United States, or rather i,oVV'vo'
more male than female persons, the census
officials in the interior department. MAKING!
no discrimination between rosy youth ana
crabbed aQe in their computations. II
tbis DISPARITY were generally distributed
| throughout the whole country, 1t would
make the United States an exception
| among civilized countries, in nearly All Oh
which women either predominate or are
nearly as numerous as men.
The place of the greatest proponderance
| Of women in the United States at the pres
| ont time is the District Of Columbia, where
the ratio in number as compared with men
| is 10 to lCO. Then comes Massachusetts,
| 1o5 to 100; then Rhode Island, 105 to 100,
| and then in the order named North Caro-
| lima and Maryland, 102 to 100; Connecticut,
New Hampshire, New York, South Caro-
| lima and Virginia, l0l to 100. In New York
state the excess of women over men Is Ali
O00 In New York city there are 10000, and
in BROOKLYN there are 1900 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 in $780, Male, o59, 800;
female, 559,231.
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 Pennsylvania, the male population out
numbers the female population in the pro-
portion of 100 to 81.
In Illinois the proportion of women to
men is "a per cent; in Florida and Missouri,
90; in Wisconsin. Iowa and Arkansas, 90,
and in Michigan, Texas and Kansas, 90. In
Minnesota it is 81; in Nebraska, "a; in South
Dakota, SO, and in North Dakota, so.
In other states the proportion of female
inhabitants falls below IS per cent of the
number of male inhabitants. In Califor-
mia, in consequence of the large number OF
Cinnamon engaged in domestic service and
in consequence of the absence of Chinese
women, the percentage is ~ In Oregon, for
the same reason, it is r. In Colorado and
Idaho, where the mining interests are ex-
tensive and the hardships of existence out
side of the chief cities outweigh the con-
veniences, it is 6S and GA respectively. In
Washington, among the lumber camps, it
is 60 per cent In Nevada, among the mines,
it is IS; in Wyoming, 81, and in Montana, so.
The male birth rate is higher than the
female birth rate in about the proportion
of 100 to 81, and the male emigration to the
United States from European countries has
for many years shown a large excess of
males-more than two-thirds of the num-
Der of recent emigrants being males. I'm
der these circumstances there should not
be preponderance of females in any Amer
lean community. Other causes, however,
affect this result adversely. The death
rate is higher among men than it is among
women. OF deaths from accidental causes,
violence or public disorder rs per cent are
male, % per cent are female A majority
of the deaths in public institutions are of
males.
The duration of life is generally longer
women. They are not addicted to |
such excuses as are the men; they are more |
temperate; they are not SO frequently ex-
posed to injury from machinery. They are |
less migratory, and they suffer less from |
epidemics and contagious diseases, because
generally speaking they ale in better health |
and more observant of hygienic rules. The
devastations of war have in most European
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 a factor in establishing de-
ficiency of male persons in most old neigh
borhoods
But after all, even though the census fig
ures do not disclose it, the most noticeable
absence OF male persons is probably to be
found on the front piazza of the average
summer resort hotel between the first Mon
lay OF June and the last Saturday of the
september succeeding. Washington Let
Ter.