The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-12

In all races and in all parts of the country there has been a decided in- crease since 1890 in the proportion of females among persons attending school. This increase is due mainly to the increase in the proportion of young women among persons at least fifteen years of age attending school the. in- crease at this age period being nearly five times as great as at any other and more than three times as great as the average increase for all ages.
 In 1890. among each. 1000 persons at least fifteen years of age attending school 528 were male; in 1900 only 4s0 were male.
 No important change took place in the large cities. The change for the whole country was due to rapid in- crease outside of the cities in the pro- portion of young men among the per- sons at least fifteen years of age att tending school the figures for the country district approaching rapidly the proportion found in cities in 1900 and 1890. r When the school attendants of a specified class are compared with the total population of the same age and class, a noticeable contrast between the negro and the foreign born white population appears. the per cent of feramle negroes attend school at each age geing larger than that of male negroes, and the per cent of female foreign born whites attending school
 at each age smaller than that of male foreign born whites Even for the age period ten to four
 teen there has been. during the last
 decade, a slight decrease in the pro- portion of males attending school to male population. somewhat more than counterbalanced by an increase in the
 proportion of females attending school
 to female population.
 Death Rate Higher for Males.
 The death rate of males in the reg
 istration area of the United States in
 1900 was 1s1 per 1000. and that of
 females l6.6 per 1000. the former hay
 ing a death rate higher by about one-
 seventh than the latter. In the 346
 registration cities the death rate of
 males was 200 and that of females 172 per 1000, the male rate exceeding
 the female by one-sixth. In the rest of the registration area the male death
 rate was 15.s and that of females .15.0
 per 1900. the male rate exceeding the
 female nineteenth.
 The difference in the death rate of
 tho sexes is apparently least between
 the ages of five to fourteen and the greatest at the youngest and oldest
 ages.
 Life tables for Massachusetts. Eng land, Prussia, and Norway confirm these conclusions and make them pre- else. They indicate that male children
 under thre6 years of age have uni
 formIy a higher death rate than fe-
 male children. a There is a period between five and twenty one years of age in which the death rate of females is slightly high CT than that of males. According to the Massachusetts life table this pe-
 riod covers seventeen years. five to twenty-one; according to the Norwe-
 gian life table. eleven years. five to
 fifteen years; according to the Prus-
 sian life table, nine years, eight to
 sixteen, and according to the English
 life table. eight years, fourteen to twenty-one.
 According to all the life tables the
 death rate of women between twenty
 and thirty years of age, at which ages
 probably four-fifths of the childbirths occur, was less than that of males.