NO. I 
NATIVES OF KHARGA OASIS HRDLICKA 
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 
Population 
at the be- 
B 
orn 
Per 1,000 
r 
lied 
Per i .000 
Year 
ginning of 
the year 
Males 
Females 
lation 
Males 
Females 
lation 
1904 
1905 
1906 
IOOQ 
4,978 
5,094 
5,209 
5,322 
5,471 
S-j-jfi 
121 
I2 9 
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 
"J& 
72 
160 
138 
119 
i35 
133 
352 
27.7 
23.4 
25.9 
25.5 
64. 3 1 
Total. 

4 88 2 
493 2 
1235 3 
3 
388 2 
35i 2 
877 3 

Avg.. 
(5,215) 
10047: 
CT CT 
122 
123 
247 
47.4 
97 
88 
i75 3 
131 
33.7 s 
25.4 
o 1 ;) 1 
1 Epidemic of measles. 
2 For 4 years. 
8 For 5 years. 
