The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-12-21
Some Interesting Facts and Con-
cIusionS from tie Census.
THE FIGURES SHOW
That the Males Are Ahead 10 the Rural
Districts, brt the Females Are Ahead
in the Cities. The Death Rate,
Males Exceed Females by
One-Nineteeu!h.


0ne-Nineteeu.h.
4 study in the proportion Of sexes
in 70 United States vas Published by
the bureau Of the ceGsus Tuesday as
bulletin x:
TIE discussion and analysis appear
irg II Bulletin IA were written by
Pro. W Wilcox, OF Cornell uni
versity, the tables themselves, de-
rived from the main population re
ports OF the twelfth census, were pre-
pared also under Prot. Wiilcox's su-
perr"iSion.
Some Of the conclusions reached ere
of scientific and practical Importance,
and may thus be uuuarjZe0: Toe
whole population Of continental Cu:t-
ed States was first counted with dis
tincti1n Of sex in 1920. During tee
seventy years from 1880 to 1900 the
absolute excess OF males was grsater
at eaca census than a. any preceding
census with cne exception, that Ct
1870, when the excess CT males vas
less tear in 1850 and $50.
This reduction Of the excess CT
males between 1860 ard 1870 by about
s0O,OOJ was doubtless due 70 tee
DEATHS in the Civil war and the d.
nirished immigration during the de
ca6e.
The greatest relative excess of
males was in 1890, when IN each TO-
900 people there were 242 more males
than females.
By 1000 this excess bai decreased
to 216 in 10000, less than the rela-
tive excess in 1890 and 1860, but
greater than that at each other
census.
In continental United States there
are 1855, 32l more males than fe-
males or about twoin each 100 people.
Probably in the population Of the
world as a whole, and certainly in
that half Of it which has been counted
with distinction OF sex, there are sew
eral millions more males than females.
In continental United States, how
ever, the relative excess Of males is
greater than the average for all ccun-
tries.
Europe has an excess Of females;
every other continent. SO far as
known, has an excess OF males.
The divisions Of continental Uoi;ed
States with the smallest proportion
Of males are the District Of Colombia
(47.4 per cent?, Massachusetts, (4S.I
per cent?, and Rhode Island (4e per
cent?; those with the ,argest are Wyo,
ming (62e per cent? and Mon
tana (6l.6 per cent?
As rule spa1sely settled regions
have an excess OF males and oensely
settled regions an excess Of females.
Between 1890 and e0G the diverg
ence among the several states in this
respect decreased and the proportion
OF males and Of femlleS in different
sections became more nearly equal.
In 1880 aoout one.foprth and IL
1900 less than one-six5h Of the Aueri-
car counties lad an excess OF females.
American cities asa rule have more
fnnales. In the 1851 cities, each
having In 1900 at least 2 500 iuhabi-
tarts, there were 2OI,959> more fe.
males than males, and this notWith-
standing the many Western cities
which had more males than female the
enc rnous number Of foreign born in
the country, fve-ninthS Ct them nale
and a large proportion Of them living
In he cities.
This tendency Of American cities
to develop population having a ma
1or ty OF females hac increased since
1890 when, in the 1890 cities, each
having at least $500 Inhabitants,
there were 6,e2s more males than
fer iales.
While the excess OF s.s2s males in
American cities in 1890 became an
ex ess Of 2l0, 959 females in American
cit les in 1900, the excess Of 1,5l9, $50
males In country districts in 1890 be-
caroe an excess Of l,640, 2so males in
1900.
or, expressing the facts in ratios,
Of each 1000 inhabitants Of such
cities in 1890, 500 were males and in
1860, 4e7 we're males; OF each 1000
inhabitants living outside these cities
in 1890, $40 we're males, and IN 1900,
$40 were males. The difference thus
III the number Of males or OF feua!es
between an average thousand OF city
and ef country population in 1922
was ~ and in 1900, %.
This conclusion is not materially
modified when a more accurate meth
Cd is employed aI6 comparison
made between the figures in 1890 ano
1900 for the same list OF cities, name
", all which had at least ?. 500 inhab-
itants al each date.
A marked increasing dissertation Of
the sexes between city and couD- Try
like that In the United States las
been noted also in the leading coun-
tries Of western Europe.
On tie other hand, there is la-ge
excess OF males il the principal cities
Of Russia and India, and in Rongkong
and Manila.
This excess Of females n the cities
Of western Europe and eastern United
States is probably due mainly to the
greater opportunity for women to fno
employment in those cities and to
their migration city~acd in conse>
euence.
But even among children under i've
years Of age, Slight differences ap-
pears between cities having at least
$4,000 inhsbitantS and the resi- OF the
country. In such cities there are SOB
males to each LOCO children; outside
Of them there are sos males to each
1000 children.
These figures support, but 90 rot.
prove the theory, that the proportion
oe rno1o- nr;1Srcr ar hirth Is sjiChtiv