The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-12
LESS FEMALES
THAN OTHER SEX
Curious Facts Brought Out in
Census Bulletin.
WOMEN LIVE THE LONGER
THEY ALSO PREDOMINANT IN
THE CITIES.
WOMEN LIVE THE LONGER

Washington. Dec. IA study in the
proportion of sexes IT. the United
states was published by the bureau OF
the census today as bulletin il
The discussion and analysis appear
lng IN bulletin IA were written b.
Professor W. f. WILCOX Of Cornell
university, the tables themselves. de-
rived from the main population re-
ports OF the twelfth census, were pre-
pared also under Professor Wilcox
supervision.
More Males Than Females in the
United States.
Some Of the conclusions reached are
OF much scientific and practical inn
lied
The whole population of continental
United states was first counted with
distinction Of sex i'm 1920 During the
seventy years from 1880 TO 1900 the alb
soluJe excess Of males was greater at
each census than at any preceding
census with one exception. that OF 1879.
when the excess of males was less than
IN 1850 and 1860
This reduction of the excess of males
between 1850 and 1870 By about 800 coo
was doubtless due to the deaths i'm the
clVil war and the diminished immigra-
ton during the decade.
The greatest relative excess of males
was i'm 1890, when in each 10000 people
there were PAP more males than fe-
males.
BY 1900 this excess had decreased to
10 m 10000. less than the relative ex-
cess in 1890 and 1860 but greater than
mat at each other census.
In continental United States there
are L6Ss,S21 more males than females.
or about two in each 100 people
Probably i'm the population Of the
world as whole, and certainly i'm that
half of it which has been counted with
instruction OF sex. there are several
millions more males than females.
In continental United States. how
ever, the relative excess of males is
greater than the average for all coun-
tries.
Europe has an exces Of females;
every other continent. so far as known
has an excess Of males
The divisions of continental United
states with the smallest proportion Of
males are the District Of Columbia
t4i4 per cent?, Massachusetts (4S.7 Der
cent?, ana Rhode Island (49.1 PEI. cent:
those with the largest are Wyoming
t6Z-9 per cent?, and Montana (6l.6 per
cent?
As a rule sparsely- settled regions
nave an excess of males and denseIy
settled regions an excess Of females.
Between 1890 and 1900 the divergence
among the several states in this respect
decreased and the proportion of males
and of females i'm different sections be-
came more nearly equal
In 1880 about One-fourth and i'm 1900
less than one-siXth of the American
counties had an excess of females.
Cities Have More Females Than
Males.
American cities as a rule have more
females than males In the 1851 cities
each having in 1900 at least $500 in
habitanta there were POI, 959 more
females than males. and this nOtwith-
standing the many western cities
.DEhi n contained more males than fe-
lo's and the enormous number Of
sprelgn born in the country, five-ninths
OF them male and large proportion of
them living i'm the cities.
This tendency OF American cities 10
develop q population having a maiority
Of females had increased since 1890
when, ian the .490 cities. each having az
least 900 inhabitants. there were $3.50
more males than females
While the excess of 6.629 males i'm
American cities i'm 1890 became an eX-
cess of 21O.959 females in American
males i'm country districts in 1890 be
came an excess of 1.S4O.2SO males in
1900
or, expressing the facts in ratios. of
each 1000 inhabitants of such cities i'm
1890, 500 were males and in 1900 497 were
males: Of each 1000 inhabitants living
outside these cities in 1890 $40 were
males and in 1900. 500 were males. The
difference thus in the number Of males
or of females between an average thou
sand Of city and of country population
in 1890 was 10 and in 1900. %
This conclusion is not materially
modified when a more accurate meth
cd is employed and comparison made
between the figures in 1890 and 1900 for
the same list Of cities namely. All
which had at least $500 inhabitants al
each date.
a marked and increasing dissertation
o. the sexes between city and country
like that in the United States has been
noted also i'm the leading countries OF |
western Europe.
On the other hand. there is a large I
excess of males in the principal cities /
OF Russia and India, and i'm Hongkong /
and Manila.
This excess of females i'm the cities of 4
western Europe and eastern United I
States is probably due mainly TO the /
greater opportunity for women TO find /
in those cities and TO their
cityward in consequence
But even among children under 3 +
years of age. a slight difference appears /
between cities having at ,gast 25.0 900 in /
habitants and the rest of the country. |
in such cities there are 500 males 10 /
each 1000 children outside OF them /
there are SOC males to each LOCO chill
dren.
These figures support but do not /
prove the theory that the proportion Of /
male children at birth is slightly less in
cities than in country districts.
Women Live Longer Than Men.
Notwithstanding the great excess of
males in the total population OF the
United States. there are two periods of
life Al which the reported number Of fe-
males is greater. One, extending from
about IS years of age 20 the end of life.
: probably due mainly to the longer