﻿NO. I 



NATIVES OF KHARGA OASIS HRDLICKA 



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The above shows principally that overcrowding of dwellings is 

 not, in general, prevalent at the Oasis. 



As to the proportion of sexes in the Kharga population, the actual 

 conditions could not be determined. The Egyptian census of 1897, 

 however, gave 3,671 males and 3,549 females, or 967 of the latter to 

 each 1,000 of the former, and exactly the same proportion was found 

 at that date in the whole of Egypt. The 1907 Egyptian census un- 

 fortunately seems to be less accurate. It gives for the Kharga Oasis 

 4,356 male and only 4,027 female individuals, which yields the ratio 

 of but 925 females to 1,000 males, while for whole Egypt the same 

 ratio was at the same date 992 to 1,000. The figures applying to the 

 Oasis are evidently erroneous. They would indicate the existence 

 of 108.2 males to each 100 females, which great disproportion is in 

 no way sustained. It disagrees greatly with the data of the previous 

 census. It is unequalled in Egypt or elsewhere, except in regions 

 that have received immigrations of males, or at least an excess of 

 males, which has not occurred in the Oasis. And it is opposed by 

 the detailed birth and death records given in the following pages. 

 It has been already shown that the 1907 census figures as a whole 

 differ from those furnished by the Oasis authorities, and they are 

 evidently also unreliable in regard to the numbers of males and 

 females in the population. 



BIRTHS AND DEATHS 



The details concerning the vital statistics of the Kharga Oasis, 

 received from the local authorities, are not very extensive, nor equally 

 complete for all the districts^ nevertheless they show several interest- 

 ing conditions. 



VITAL STATISTICS OF THE KHARGA VILLAGE FOR FIVE YEARS 



Year 



Population 

 at the be- 

 ginning of 

 the year 



Born 



Total 



Per 1,000 

 of popu- 

 lation 



Died 



Total 



Per 1. 000 



Males 



Females 



Males 



Females 



of popu- 

 lation 



1904 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 I908 

 I909 



4,978 

 5,094 

 5,209 



5,322 

 5,471 

 5,336 



121 

 129 



135 

 103 



113 

 119 



147 

 114 



254 

 234 

 248 

 282 

 217 



51.0 

 45.9 

 47.6 

 53.0 

 39.7 



"62 



73 



61 



192 



57 



62 



72 



160 



138 

 119 



135 

 133 

 352 



27.7 

 23.4 

 25.9 

 25.5 

 64. 3 l 



Total. 



488 2 



493 2 



1235 3 



3 



388 2 



35i 2 



877 3 





Avg.. 



(5,215) 



i904-'7: 

 5i5i 



122 



123 



247 



47.4 



97 



88 



175 3 

 131 



33. 7 3 

 25.4 



1 Epidemic of measles. 



For 4 years. 



For 5 years. 



