Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-08

CONDITIONS ARE CONTRARY
TO THOSE OF EUROPE
immigration Partly Responsible Fo.
Diffsrene in This country-Mortal.
ity Of Infants Much Larger Among
Males Than Femaiss-Women Out
live the Men.

Washington, Dec. S.-A preliminary
statement giving for continental United
States the distribution OF the popu-
lation according to sex as shown
by the returns Of the Thirteenth
Decennial Census taken as OK
April 10. 100, was issued today
by Director Durand OF the Bureau, OF
the census, Department Of Commerce
and Labor. I.
In the United States as a whole there
are 47.332,122 males and 44.s40.144 fe-
males. or preparation Of 106 males for
every 100 females.
Considerable interest attaches to the
deviation from the numerical quality
Of the two sexes here noted. While 1t is
commonly assumed that the two sexes
are equal In number. the fact Is that
there is always slight difference be-
tween them. Most northern European
countries show an excess Of females.
The contrary fact In the United
States has been generally ascrihed to
the effects Of ina gination as 1t Is well
known that among immigrants males
pTcuOINlIIdlS ~ u ldIBS SAtSh. HA' -
not the full explanation, as can be
seen from consideration Of the figures
by elements of the population as shown
in Table No. i.
Tho. Excess Of Males.
Among tho foreign white there are
1892 males for every 100 females. this
proportion rejecting the familiar fact
already noted with respect to the ex-
cess Of males among immigrants.
But this excess of males Is also
found in the largest single group OF the
population Of the United States--the
native white of native purents--Of the
latter there are 26,229. .294 melss and
24,e59,1s7 females. or proportion or
1O4 males for every 100 females. This
disparity is due wholly to natural caus-
es: the only other cause which would
affect it is emigration from the United
States, and such emigration Is small
and is certainly not greater In case OF
females than In case of males.
In the next group-the native white
OF foreign parents-the numbers OF the
two sexes are almost equal, with a
slight excess Of females.
Among the negroes. however. there is
a more noticeable preponderance OF fe-
males. $50 males to 100 females.
The small group in which there are
nearly twice as many males as females
is composed Of Indians and immigrant
Asiatics, the latter being mainly male.
Due In large measure to the eifects
Of recent Immigration, the proportion
Of males to 100 females In the popuia-
ton as a whole has risen slightly be-
tween 1900 and 1910. namely from IVA
to 106. The proportion in the sexes IN
the general native born groups have
not changed materially.
Why There Arc Moro Males.
At birth the number of males always
exceeds the number Of males. but male
mortality Is always greater than re-
male. Consequently, thru the excess or
male deaths, the number or femaies
gradually approaches that or males and
in the later years OF life exceeds 1t. IN
countries where the death rate Is high
an equality is reached at compare :
lively early age. and the subsequent
inequality in favor of the females out
weighs the previous inequality In favor
Of the males. so that In the population
in the United States there Is generatiy
81 lower death date than In northern
European countries, and the difference
between the death rates oi mares anu
females is not so marked. The eduahtN
In the number of sexes occurs mere az
a later age than In European countries
and the slightly greater death rate
does not overcome the initial adVan-
tages which the males have at birth
The result Is for the native white pop
ulation of the United States generally
an excess OF males. For the native
white of foreign parents. where the
conditions with respect to mortality are
not so favorable. the result Is thai
the two sexes are almost identical IN
number. with. in fact, slight prepon-
derance of females in 1910. as against
slight excess of males in 1900. Or
the other hand the negroes. with thcii
greater death rate. show the same re-
suit as is observed in European coun-
tries namely. an appreciable excess oi
females in the population. both In 1910
and In 1911.