Spinsters
SIR,—I feel Mr. Hilton-Young has rather strengthened my assertion that (apart from war losses) there are more British men than women of marriageable age ; I am quite willing to concede " more " for my rather careless " far more." Mr. Hilton-Young does not state whether the 1931 census included those absent in the Services, and anyway about a million men had been killed or grossly incapacitated in World War One. The Quarterly,Estimate of 1950 shows a rough equality of the sexes in spite of losses in World War Two (half a million ?).
The facts really cannot be disputed : several thousand more boys than girls are born every year and consequently—apart from a major war—males are in excess till middle age; so if British women remain spinsters it is not due to shortage of men.—Yours truly, 6 Broadwater Down, Tunbridge Wells. A. MAHONY-JONES.
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