19 WOMEN TO 14 MEN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 9

19 WOMEN TO 14 MEN

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Some curious facts aro revealed in U British Kegislrar-Gcncral'e report, issui recently, of births, deaths, and ma ringes -"iti. ]!)]".. It is estimated, for S fiance, that there are. 19 women to eve: U men', the figures being 10,625,700 ai H,oSs,.'iop. Between tho ages of 15' as ■10 theyrb ai-o 9,M2,635 women and on ; 4,:i92,927 nicii; Jt wouldlcem, tliwefoi that it is something like two to o? .against a woman marrying. Tho figure it should be'pointed out, are the es , mated civilian population. , . Whereas most liiarriages used to tal place iii' July..' August; "and 'Septemto tho' favourite 'months... now are Octobc November, and December. Widows i married. in-, great. numbers. Althouj young wax.widows.affected the figures, is'clear, that' Urn war, is not wholly i ppbnsible," for 'the total began to i crease in y ]3l2. \?idower?, too, sliow i increasing tendency to take second \viv« About half of the divorced people ma ried again. ■ The youngest bachelor to marry was 1 and Hie ybungei-t spinsler 14. Kα few than J!!) miflos".marrjed at the age of 1 and USD at the age of 17, two of the In (or lua'rryinjf.Vido'ws. "Twenty-six spi sters married lit the age of 15, one : tlliMij to.a'iw'idowor; IS7 women wern wlien (lioy married, and of 1201 ranrr ing at 17 years 15 married widowers. Tl earliest second marriage of males was : the iigo of- 10, and Ihrco widows r married at the age of .18.,,. 'Of ;I9 men marrying when they we lurncd 80, only one, aged 31, bad nev .tasted thi' joys of matrimonial bliss pv viously, the-real' widowers; but o , of niiw women marrying beyond that ai two were; spinst.ers. 'TlAj oldest ninn bo married was a widower of !)2, and tl two oldest women were aged 85, one widow and one n spinster. A girl of ir/mavriod a mm of 40; oi wife of (id married ft husband aged !!• another nged 21 took a husband of Ifi. man of'7o married a girl of SO; other aged 08 and'(il>, wed with sweet 17, at 1 Hi couples married when- they were pa io. . . ■. '■ ■-■■■.■■