MELBOURNE’S 50,000 SURPLUS WOMEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 320, 3 April 1928, Page 13

MELBOURNE’S 50,000 SURPLUS WOMEN

OTHER CITIES THE SAME Determined bachelors, appalled* "by the leap year announcement oi the Commonwealth Statistician that there are 7,000 more women than men m Victoria, must not think they can And sanctuary in other countries, because nearly all of them are worse off than Australia. In Russia there are nearly ten million more women .than men, with every year a leap year, and the price of gloves, time-honoured forfeit, soaring to Hinkler heights. The only places where there are more men than women are the wide, open spaces of Australia and other nett countries. Actually there are nearly 50,000 more women than men In Melbourne. Sydney has a 32,000 surplus of women, and there are more women than men in every State capital, including Hobart. Outback, however, men and rabbits hold sway, and that is why figures show a male surplus of 2.20 of the popu’ ition. In every long-settled country women predominate, and the main reason is that women are more tenacious of life. Not only have they less occupational risks, but males die easier. This is true of all ages, from one year to SO, and even In the child-bear-ing ages fewer women die than men. Statistics over 40 years show this to he true, and all the strides of science have not altered the brfance. Under one year of age the male death-rate is 25 per cent, higher than the female. At the age of 30 the male death-rate for Australia was 3.90 a thousand, and the female 3.57. In Russia for every 100 of the population there are 9.56 more women. Other percentages in countries where women predominate are:—Netherlands, 7.29; Portugal, 5.23; France, 4.92; England and Wales, 4.34; Great Britain, 4.25; Austria, 4.24; Scotland, 3.52; Switzerland, 3.69; German Empire, 3.47; Bavaria, 3.42; Poland, 3.37; Northern Ireland, 3.18; Spain, 3.07: Prussia, 3.00; Hungary, 2.97; Norway, 2.60; Denmark, 2.38; Yugoslavia, 1.92; Italy, ’.81; Sweden, 1.S0; Finland, 1.23; Belgium, 1.19; Bulgaria, .78; Greece, .62; Chile, .57. The countries where there are more men than women are: Argentine, 7.27; Ceylon, 5.91; India, 2.73; Australia, 2.20; Union of South Africa, 2.17; New Zealand. 2.11; U.S.A.. 1.95; ! Irish Free State, 1.35; Rumania, .75: j Japan, .IS; Canada, .31,