Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1901 — The Excess of Women. [ARTICLE]

The Excess of Women.

The census returns show that of the 32,526,076 persons enumerated in England and Wales, 15,721,728 were males and 16,804,347 females. This gives an excess of 1,082,619 females, an excess which Is partially attributable to the fact that men serving In the army, navy and the merchant service abroad are excluded from the reckoning. In 1891 the excess was 896,723. To each hundred males enumerated there wero 106.9 females. The proportion of females has been steadily Increasing at each census since 1861, having been successively 104.2, 106.3, 105.4, 106.4, and 106.9 to one hundred males.