Astonishing figures showing the relative morality, sobriety, health, and sanity of the sexes, os far an such figures can be taken as o bassia of comparison, spear in the first volume of the detailed census report for England and Wales. Briefly the figures show that while the women are more moral than men they are not as sane or as sober.
The statistics relating to the sexes may be tabulated thus:
Prisons—139 women to 1,000 men.
Certified reformatory industrial schools—278 women to 1,000 men.
Workhouse establishments—638 women to 1,000 men.
Hospitals—sexes nearly equal.
Lunatic asylums—1,140 women to 1,000 men.
Certified inebriate reformatories and retreate—of 1,357 inmates on census night only 304 were men.
There are 1,179,276 more females than males in England and Wales. Since 1821 the preponderance has steadily increased, despite the fact that more boys are born than girls. The proportion of females to males only exceeded in one European country, Norway.
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