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REPLIES OF WIDOWS.
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Number
Borne by each.
Totals.
of
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Women.
Boys.
Girls.
Abortions
Boys.
Girls.
Abortions.
Aggregate
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10
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18
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24
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233
369
265
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636
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Commencing with the offspring of single women, it will be seen that one was the mother of ten children, eight boys and two girls. Two women gave birth to six children each. Four gave birth to five children each. Three gave birth to four children each. Sixteen gave birth to three children each. Fifty-four gave birth to two children each. Two hundred and forty-nine gave birth to one child each. Twenty-seven have suffered abortion once, and one has suffered in the same manner four times. The corresponding tables for married women and widows express similar facts in the same form. It is not necessary to quote them, as the figures give all the required information. The results may be recapitulated thus:
Boys. Girls. Abortions. Totals.
357 single women bore 272 187 31 490 357 married ” ” 459 325 7 791 233 widows bore 369 265 2 636 ---- --- -- ---- 947 1100 777 40 1917
Excess of male over female births, 223.
Ratio of excess upon the total number born, 11-6/10 per cent.
The next point claiming attention is the number of illegitimate children resulting from prost.i.tution, based upon answers to the
_Question._ WERE THESE CHILDREN BORN IN WEDLOCK?
Legitimate children of married women 469 ” ” ” widows 358 Total legitimate 827 Illegitimate children of single women 490 ” ” ” married ” 322 ” ” ” widows 279 --- Total illegitimate 1090 ---- Aggregate 1917
The whole of the children borne by single women are, of course, illegitimate. Of the children of married women over forty per cent., and of the children of widows forty-four per cent. are illegitimate. Taking the total number of children of the three cla.s.ses, and calculating upon this broad basis, it will appear that 1090 illegitimate children were born, giving an average of fifty-seven per cent.; or, to speak in plain terms, of every hundred children borne by women who are now prost.i.tutes, forty-three were born before the mothers (married women or widows) had embraced this course of life, and the remaining fifty-seven were the fruit of promiscuous intercourse, liable physically to inherit the diseases of the mother, morally to endure the disgrace attached to their birth, and very probably to be reared in the midst of blasphemy, obscenity, and vice, to follow in the footsteps of their parents, and perpetuate the sin to which they owe their origin.
The excessive mortality among this cla.s.s of children is developed in the following replies to the
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