Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1898 — Birth Rate of Males and Females. [ARTICLE]

Birth Rate of Males and Females.

Nature seems to be able to regulate the births of males and females without the help of German savants. It may be remembered that Buckle found that the average birth rate the world over was 21 boys to 20 girls, thus giving every Jill a chance for a Jack, after allowing for the greater death rate among males. ‘ The Springfield Republican is authority for the assertion that In Massachusetts for forty years the male birth rate relative to the. female has not noticeably changed, the number of male births to each 1,000 female births in the. last twenty years being 1,053 as compared with 1,069 for the preceding twenty years. In Europe observations covering ten years Indicate an average of 1,060 males born to every 1,000 females, England being at one extreme, with 1,038, and Italy at t|ie other, with I,o7l.—Louisville Courier-Journal.