The morning call., 1894-05-12
TORE CONJUGAL STATISTICS

TORE CONJUGAL STATISTICS.
A few days ago THE CALL condensed
an extra census bulletin, which gave sta
tistics of the cOnjugal condition of the
people of tbis State. 1t appeared from
that publication that out of a total p0pu-
lation uf 1,20S, 730 in the census year Cali
fornia cont ined 455, ,250 single males and
272. .694 single females. in all 727. 944 persons
of both sexes who were unmarried, while
San Francisco, with total population of
29S 997. contained Ill, ,64S single males and
69.067 single females, or 1S0.915 persons
who were unmarried. These aggregates,
however, included children, and therefore
failed TO reflect the true conjugal condition
by table displaying the number Of the
unmarried among the marrisgeable.
This information has now been supplied
so far as the city is concerned by the re-
turn of w. w. BausmaD. School Census
Marshal, who has compiled and published
a census OF the children in the city. his
figures are:
Children of school age. to o17............6s.3e 800
Children under 5......................... 1886
Total. 81, ,e9e
By deducting this number from the total
population of the city we arrive at the
conclusion that San Francisco contains
207. COL persons of marriageable age, that
is to say, over II; and as the city contains
81, PA married males and 47,465 married
females, or 9s, 700 married persons in all,
the total number of persons who might be
married and are not is 10S 292, in other
words something over a third Of the total
population. Or course allowance must be
made for some 10000 unmarried Chinese
adult males. Yet even with this allow
ance this is a very remarkable showing,
and perhaps 1t is even more favorable
than the fact. The number of children of
school age and below reported by Marshal
Bausman seems large. Errors have been
detected before in school censuses. Their
tendency to exaggerate the number of
children of school age and OF children
enrolled on the school roll has been re-
marked. though not within a few years
Assuming that the figures given are cor
rect nearly one-third the population of
the city consists of children under II;
but If so. families are larger than is gener-
ally believed. The average number of
births in the city is about 6500 per year.
but the deaths of children within the
school age will average 2500 per year, so
that the natural increase is not surpris-
ingly large. In the whole State the num-
ber of children of the school age was
reckoned by the census al 10000, less
than One-fourth of the total population.
Assuming that the figures are correct.
a. Al II
not marrying city. Counting in thou
sands. 271 men out of TAT in New Y ork are
married, 205 out of 56S in Chicago, 1S9 out
of 511 in Philadelphia, rs out of 217 in Bos-
ton, 76 out of 2o6 in Baltimore, 46 out of
12s in Buffalo. % out of 60 in st. Paul, 25
out of II in Kansas City. The city which
approximates most closely to San Fran
cisco is Cincinnati. where 81 men out of
145 are married. against 81 of 169 here. In
all the Eastern cities the proportion of
married women to females generally is
somew hat larger than it is here; in all of
them the proportion OF single females, in
cluding females under the marrageable
age, is very much larger than that OF the
married.
The small figure which divorce--of which
we have so much-cuts in these statistics
is quite noticeable. Ii we were to believe
what we read, one would almost suppose
that divorced persons constitute a large
section of our people, whereas it appears
that there was but 1901 divorced men
and 1885 divorced women in all the coun-
try. OF these, nearly half are in the north
central division, which comprises the
States of the river valleys. The western
division. which includes the States on each
slope Of the Rockies, only contains 6l14
divorced men and 5491 divorced women.
California figures with large share of
these. showing up with 1856 of the former
and 1898 of the latter. San Francisco ap-
pears 10 hold more divorced women than
divorced men. the figures being 627 Of the
former to 407 of the latter.