Southern States (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida), 98·54 females to 100 males.
Southwestern States (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee), 91·66 females to 100 males.
Northwestern States (Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa), 92·11 females to 100 males.
California and Territories, 36·73 females to 100 males.
Two facts are developed in this statement. In the New England States females are in excess of males. From this district comes the majority of all the native-born prostitutes who find their home in New York City. In the Northwestern States, to which it has been proposed to remove some of the surplus female labor of New York, the males are in excess, and any women sent there would aid in restoring the equilibrium of the sexes.
The following table gives the relative percentage of each sex at different ages, and also the number of females to each hundred males:[406]
| Ages. | Percentage of Males. | Percentage of Females. | Females to each 100 Males. | ||||
| Under | 5 | years | 14·68 | 14·95 | 96·76 | ||
| From | 5 | years to | 10 | years | 13·69 | 13·98 | 97·03 |
| " | 10 | " | 15 | " | 12·23 | 12·35 | 96·00 |
| " | 15 | " | 20 | " | 10·39 | 11·42 | 104·46 |
| " | 20 | " | 30 | " | 18·64 | 18·46 | 94·08 |
| " | 30 | " | 40 | " | 12·85 | 11·84 | 87·55 |
| " | 40 | " | 50 | " | 8·38 | 7·86 | 89·09 |
| " | 50 | " | 60 | " | 4·97 | 4·83 | 92·15 |
| " | 60 | " | 70 | " | 2·64 | 2·69 | 96·88 |
| " | 70 | " | 80 | " | 1·11 | 1·18 | 101·01 |
| " | 80 | " | 90 | " | ·31 | ·36 | 110·11 |
| " | 90 | " | 100 | " | ·04 | ·05 | 123·16 |
| " | 100 | years upward | 120·45 | ||||
| Ages unknown | ·07 | ·03 | 44·09 | ||||
| 100· | 100· | 95· | |||||
Experience has proved that the age at which female virtue is exposed to the most temptations, or at least the age at which the greater part of the prostitutes in New York have embraced their wretched calling, is from fifteen to twenty years, and the table above shows that at those periods females are in excess over males nearly 4½ per cent. Is it to be supposed that the numerical predominance is the cause of the temptations; or may it not rather be concluded that both are co-existent, and equally contribute to the sad result; or even would not temptation be more aggravated, because concentrated, if, at that critical period of life, males and females were in equal numbers?
The following table gives the relative ages of the whole population without distinction of sex, but compares the white, free colored, and slave classes:
| Ages. | Percentage of white Population.[407] | Percentage of free colored Population.[408] | Percentage of slave Population.[409] | |||||
| Under | 5 | years | of | age | 14·81 | 14.00 | 16.87 | |
| From | 5 | years | to | 10 | years | 13·83 | 13·86 | 14·95 |
| " | 10 | " | " | 15 | " | 12·28 | 12·04 | 13·61 |
| " | 15 | " | " | 20 | " | 10·89 | 10·08 | 11·15 |
| " | 20 | " | " | 30 | " | 18·55 | 17·85 | 17·86 |
| " | 30 | " | " | 40 | " | 12·36 | 12·71 | 11·04 |
| " | 40 | " | " | 50 | " | 8·13 | 8·73 | 6·86 |
| " | 50 | " | " | 60 | " | 4·90 | 5·60 | 3·96 |
| " | 60 | " | and upward | 4·20 | 5·56 | 3·68 | ||
| Ages unknown | ·05 | ·07 | ·02 | |||||
| 100· | 100· | 100· | ||||||