The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-04
SEX AMONG EMIGRANTS.
The Proportion of Women Among
tho Now Arrivals.
Some Strange Facts Brought Out by
OmciaI statistics-Countries In Which
There Are More Women
Than Men.

The publication of articles on the
subject of European immigration into
the republic of Venezuela has called
attention again TO one of the curiosi-
ties of emigration which has never been
clearly explained and remains there
fore something of an enigma 1t is
wen known that the foreign inni-gr
ton into this country from the north
ern nations of Europe-Great Britain,
Germany, Russia and Scandinavia
have, like the early colonists from the
same countries, been pretty evenly d.
yided between the two sexes. he
emigration from the southern coun-
tries Of Europe, on the contrary, SPAN,
ITALY, Greece and Portugal, has been
chiefly male, and to this fact, perhaps,
more than to any ether, is due the IN
termarriage of emigrants and natives
in South and Central America, and the
general absence of such marriages in
North America, particularly i'll the
United States and Canada. The emf
grafton from Ireland, for instance, for
many years, has been more largely
made up of female than of male emf
grants, while from italy, on the other
hand, the proportion for a period of
more than 20 years is, male, rs; female,
rs.
The total number of emigrants to the
United States from 1915, the first year
of large emigration, to 1895, period
covering half q century, was in excess
of 10000, 900, and more than 40 PER cent.
was female, whereas the large Spanish
and italian emigration to South Ameri-
ca has been almost exclusively male.
AS this matter is not one OF early oc-
currencc but continues at present
(the census figures resuming their old
dimensions since the improvement OF
the times), it might be supposed that
the number of women in those Euro
pean countries from which there is
and has been practically no female
emigration, would be much larger than
in those countries which have suffered
a steady cininution through the emf
grafton of persons of both sexes. But,
the contrary of this is shown by the
figures of the Almanach de Gotha. In
Italy, from which there is very little
female emigration, the number OF fe-
male inhabitants is actually less than
the male inhabitants-in the ratio OF
40 to 100. In Roumania it is 90 to 100.
On the other hand, in Great Britain,
from which the emigration of women
has been continuous, they outnumber
the men in the proportion of 1o4 to 100.
In all the other countries of Europe
from which there is and has been
large female emigration a majority CT
the inhabitants are women. In Rus
STA the proportion is 102 women TO 100
men, in Germany 104 women to 100
men, in Sweden 106 women to 100 men;
in Switzerland 104 women to 100 men,
and in Denmark and Austria 103 wom-
en- to 100 men. In France and Belgium
the equality of proportion between the
sexes is evenly preserved. Thus, in
France there are 1904 women to 1000
men, and in Belgium the difference is
smaller, there being 1901 women to
1000 men.
A still more peculiar manifestation
of the same paradox, if it may be so
considered, is found in the official re-
ports recently published in England
of the emigration from that country
during the last quarter of a century.
In 1860 4851z per cent. of the populauo
of Great Britain was male and 5lHa per
cent. was female. Between 1860 and
1870 the female emigration was the larg-
er, yet by the census Of 1871 the female
population increased The more rapidly.
From 1870 to 1880 the male emigration
was the larger, but the female popu-
lation increased the more rapidly.
Y. Sun.