The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-12
SEXES PROPORTION
TABLES BASED ON TWELFTH GEN.
 sUs REPORT.
More Males Than Females h the Entire Country, But Women Out Num-
 Der Men In Cities and
 S5.< Scheels.

Washington, Dec. ll.--A study in the proportion of sexes in the Uniteo states
 was published. by the Bureau of the i Census today as Bulletin II. The discussion and analysis appear | ing in Bulletin 14 were written oy Frot w. F. Wilcox of Cornell University the tables themselves. derived rom tne main population reports of the Twelfth Census, were prepared also unoer fro' lessor Willcox's supervision. Some of the conclusions reached are of much scientific and practical import ance, and may thus be summarized: The whole population of continental United States was first counted Witn distinction of sex in -1s30. During the seventy years from 1880 to 1900 the absolute excess of males was greater at each census than at any preceains census with one exception, that or isV when the excess of males was less than | in 1850 and 1860.
 This reduction of the excess of males
 between 1860 and 1870 by about so0,O0o was doubtless due to the deaths In the Civil War and the diminished immisra- ton during the decade.
 | The. .greatest relative Oscess Of males was in 1890, when in each io.ooo peo' pie there were 242 more males than fe' males.
 By 1900 this excess had decreased te
 21s in 1o.g0o. let's than the relative ex'
 cess in 1890 and 1860. but greater than that at each other census.
 | In continentnl United States there are 1.e3S,321 more males than females or about 2 in each 100 people. Probably in the population of the | world as a whole and certainly in tna' half of 1t which has besn counted wftf distinction of sex, there are several mii lions more males than females. In continental Enited States. how ever,, the relative excess of males i'
 greater than the average for all coun' | tries.
 Europe has an excess of females every other continent, so far as known has an excess of males.
 The divisions of continental United
 States with the smallest proportion oi | males are the District of Columbi. | (47.4 per centJ, Massachusetts (<8.l per cent), and Rhode Island (4s.l pei | cent); those with the largest are Wyo' 1 ming (62.9 per cent). and Montana | (s1.6 per cenD.
 As a rule sparsely settled regions have an excess of males and densely l settled regions an excess of females. Between 1890 and 1900 the divergence among the several States in this re- | bpcCL 0cCICdSC0 anu tho PAOPO~ males and of females in different sec tions became more nearly equal l In 1880 about one-fourth and in 1sot
 less than one-sixth of the American counties had an excess of females. | Cities Have More Females.
 r American cities as a rule have more l females than males In the 1881 cities each having in 1900 at least 2.5oo in' habitants, there were 20f,s5s more fe' males than males. and this notwith-
 standing the many Western cities which contains more males than females and the enormous number of foreign borr | in the country, five-ninths of them male and a large proportion of them | living in the cities.
 l This tendency of American cities tc l develop a population having a major ity of females had increased since 1sso
 when, in the 1.4so cities, each having
 at least 2,500 inhabitants, there were 6,929 more males than females. | While the excess of 6.929 males in | American cities in 1890 became an sx-