The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-14

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a preliminary statement giving. for
continental United States the dls,ri.
buttoh Of the population according 10
seS. sas shown by the returns Of the
Thirteenth Decennisl Census taken
as Of April 10, 1910, was issued today
by Director Durand Of the Bureau
Of the Census. Department of Com
merce and Labor, The statement also
gives the figures Tor each geographic
division. The statistics were pre-.
pared under the supervision of Mr.
William c. Hunt, chief statistcian OF
population in the Buerau of the Cen
sus, and are subject to later revision.
In the United States as whole
there are 47,ss2,122 males and A..
COLA females, or a proportion Of
LOG males for every 100 females.
Considerable interest attaches to
the deviation from the numerical
equality of the two sexes here noted
While it is fommonlyias assumed that
the two sexes are equal In number,
the fact is that there is always
slight difference betyeen them. Most
northern European countries show
al increase of females. The contrary
fact in the United States has been
generally ascribed 10 the effects of
immigration, as 1t jssEell known that
among immigrants males predoml-
nate 10 large extent. This is not
the full explanation. as can be seen
from consideration of the figures
by elements of the population.
The Excess of Males.
Among the foreign white th&e are
1892 males for every 100 females,
this proportion rejecting the familiar
fact already noted with respect to the
excess OF males among immigrants.
But this evcess of males is also
found in the largest single group OF
the population of the United States
the native white of native parents.
OF the latter there are 25,229,294
males and 24,259,147 females, or
proportion Of tO4 males for every
100 females. This disparity is due
wholly to natural causes; the only
other cause which would affect it is
emigration from the United States
and such emigration is small and it
certainly not greater in case of te-
males 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 more noticeable preponderance
Ct females, 999 males to 100 males
The small group "All other" In
which there are nearly twice as many
males as females is composed of In
dams and immigrant Asiatics, the
latter being mainly male.
Due in large measure to the effects
Of recent immigration, the proportion
of males for 100 females in the pop
ulation as whole has risen slightly
between 1900 and 1910, namely, from
lO46 to 1906 The proportions of the
sexes in. the several natlve-born
groups have not changed materially.
Why There Are More Males.
At birth the number Of males al
ways exceeds the number of females
but male mortality is always creator
than female. Consequently, through
the excess of male deaths, the number
OF females gradually approaches that
of males and In. the later years Of life
exceeds It, In countries where the
death rate Is high an equality Ia
reached at comparatively early age,
and the subsequent inequality in
favor of the females outwelghs the
previous inequality IN favor Of the
males, so that IN the population as n
whole there are more females than
males. In the United States there is
generally a lower death rate than In
northern European countries, and the
difference between the death rates OF
males and females is not so marked
The equality in the number of the
sexes occurs here at later age than
in European countries, and the slight
ly greater male death rate does not
overcome the initial advantage which
the males have al birth. The result
is for the native white population Of
the United States generally an excess
OF males. Fer the native white OF
foreign parents, whore the conditions
with respect to mortality are not 50
favorable. the result is as shown, that
the two sexes are almost identical in
number with, in fact a slight pre-
ponderance of females in 1910, as
against slight excess Of males in