Contributions to the vital statistics of the state of New-York / by Lemuel Shattuck ; communicated to T. Romeyn Beck.

  • Lemuel Shattuck
Date:
[1850?]
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Credit: Contributions to the vital statistics of the state of New-York / by Lemuel Shattuck ; communicated to T. Romeyn Beck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    each other, such a comparison will lead to error. Hence, the com- parisons in the accompanying table, if they are allowed to be correct in other respects, must not be taken as strictly accurate; for it is pre- sumed that there live in some counties a greater proportion of one age, than of the same age in another county. The returns, however, furnish one characteristic of the population, that of the sexes, which is proper to be noticed in this connection. The number and proportion of each sex at the different enumerations for the whole State are as follows: 1825. Males, 822,897, as 50.91; or as 100. ; or as 103.69 Females,... 793,561 to 49.09 to 96.43 to 100. 1,616,458 100.00 1835. Males,.... 1,102,658; as50.71; or as 100. ; or as 102.87 Females,.. ],071,859 to 49.29 to 97.11 to 100. 2,174,517 100.00 1845. Males, 1,311,342; as 50.35; or as 100. ; or as 101.40 Females,.. 1,293,153 to 49.65 to 98.61 to 100. 2,604,495 100.00 The difference between the sexes was 1.82 per cent, in 1825-; 1.42 per cent, in 1835; and .70 per cent, in 1845; showing a nearer ap- proximation to equality in the last than in the first period. II. Density of the Population. Table II. gives the arta in square miles and square acres of each county, compiled from Holley's State Register; »and the population to the square mile calculated for each enumeration. This area is, however, for 1845, and an allowance should be made for previous dates in those counties where the area has been changed. It affords interesting results worthy of considera- tion. New-York, containing 16,873.7 persons to the square mile in 1845, is of course the most densely populated county in the State. Hamilton, containing 1.7 persons to the square mile, is the least so. It would be a valuable addition to this information, if the areas of the wards in cities were known, and the comparative density of the popu-