The Increasing Male
Sm,—Returning to the charge (albeit reluctantly and solely in the Interests of truth), I must again challenge Mr. Hilton Young's figures in his letter of August 1st. I have verified the fact that census returns do not include the many thousands of men temporarily absent from home in army, navy, merchant service, etc.; add to these the vast numbers killed in the last war, and surely he can no longer dispute my original assertion that, apart from a major war, there are more British men than women of marriageable age. Incidentally I think " marriageable age" shouTd include those from sixteen to forty-five ' or even fifty: Mr. Hilton Young would be surprised at the number of marriages under twenty, especially in what used to be known as the working-class.—Yours faithfully, A. MAHONY-JONES. 6 Broadwater Down, Tunbridge Wells.
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