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Show Excess of Men Falls in Nation Shrinking 100,000 a Year, Should Vanish by '55, Census Bureau Notes. WASHINGTON. The excess of males over females in the United States is being reduced, according to the census bureau, at the rate of nearly 100.000 a year. In about 15 years, according to the census table, the United States should join the majority of nations in showing a female majority. The excess of female population in Germany Ger-many in 1937 was nearly 1,800,000, in France about 1,500,000 and in England nearly 1,700,000. The United States, along with other oth-er new lands like Canada and Australia, Aus-tralia, has consistently had a male majority. In 1920, the excess of males was 2.090,242. In 1930 it had fallen to 1,499,114. Preponderantly male immigration contributed to retain re-tain the male majority status but, during the last decade, immigration has ceased to be an important factor. fac-tor. Peak Reached in 1910. The peak of male excess population popula-tion over female in the United States was reached in 1910, when it was 2,692,288. The excess had consistently consistent-ly increased with every decade except ex-cept that between 1860 and 1870, when Civil war losses reduced the male excess from 727,087 to 428,759. Although 105 to 106 males are born to every 100 female births, the higher" high-er" death rate among males is offsetting off-setting this fact. The trend toward a female majority is being materially material-ly aided by the fact that women now live three years longer than men. Average death records of the census cen-sus bureau covering the last five years show that deaths among males exceeded deaths among females by 155,559 per year (787,881 male deaths to 632,322 female). To offset thjs annual an-nual male deficit, partially, there has been during the same five years an average of 56,770 male births in excess of female. Eliminating the effects of immigration, therefore, the annual approach to a point of feminine majority is 98,789. Heart Disease Takes Toll. Heart disease takes 47,073 mora males than females annually; automobile auto-mobile accidents take 19,732 more males; influenza and pneumonia, 17,168; suicides, 10,172 (14,529 male to 4,357 female); tuberculosis, 9,694; congenital malformations and diseases dis-eases of infancy, 9,488, and nephritis, nephri-tis, 7,427. The common killers in which the deaths of females exceed ex-ceed those of males, with average annual excess, are cancer and tumors, tu-mors, 10,818; and diabetes, 6,862. Maternal deaths average 12,000 annually. an-nually. The one common killer which seems to show no sex favoritism favor-itism is cerebral hemorrhage, embolism em-bolism and thrombosis, which annually annu-ally takes approximately 110,000, with only 300 more females than males. Loss of males as a result of war has not been an important factor affecting sex balance in the United States. Total war losses through 150 years are not much greater than the excess deaths of males over females from accidents alone in 10 years. In fact, war losses of males, averaged av-eraged through 150 years, do not approach ap-proach the present male excess over female losses from suicides alone. Diseases of the heart are now taking tak-ing a toll in three years equal to war losses of 150 years. |