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298 REPORT-1883. TABLI; XXIIL-Comparison of Boys and Girls, at different Ages, in Industrial School at Swinton, near Manchester. Age No. of (1115( r5'alioo, Height Weight Chestgirth Breathing capacity Strength of arm. Drawing Rawer Sight. Test dots distinguished at distance of feet, M. M. F. M. I 1'. M. I F. M. F. lbs. luuchest whesl Cubic Inches 80.9 28.3 29 0 181) 177 71.3 26.6 27-3, 166 1 13 64.6 25.9 27 6 166 138 60.3 25.8 27.5' 153 145 55'4 2:16 26.9 140 124 52.0 2:3.0 26.2 182 126 47.3 22-6 25'7 117 112 42.4 22.2 25'5' 77 83 37.2 21.4 21.0 48 5,1 :14-81 20.8 20.6 88 4I 29-71 20.0 19.3 22 30 - 20.0 - 20 - M. lbs. 4(M) 87.3 3.0 6 34.2 26.7 21.7 18.1 18.5 11 -5 6"1 1-0 F. { M. F. It's. ft. Ill. ft. ill. 3:-0 27.9 38.1 27.6 30.9 87.2 27.6 :32.6 36.7 20.4 1 82.3 39.0 19.51 28.4 84.8 18.0 24.2 3 1.7 17.0 22-8 10 '5 12.6 23-8 27.6 8-5 19.8 34.3 6 8 16.4 19.9 -3 13.6 1:-0 REPORT OF THE, ANTIIROPOMETRIC COMMITTEE. 299' twenty-seven years, is given. Allowing for one or two obvious errors of observation, the general run of the figures is very uniform, the statures remaining stationary, while there is a slight improvement in the weight at the higher ages in the last nine years. TABLE XXIV.-Showing the average STATURE; and Wrum-r of Factory Children at an interval of 40 years, 1833-1873. (Stanway and Roberts.) E1 6 21 1:3 28 27 12 41 29 11 2.2 :31 10 :32 27 4 32 25 8 21 28 7 32 20 6 28 19 5 12 1:1 1 -t :3 Total 261 245 ioehes,incihes 55.0 54.4 52.5 51.1 54.0 49.9 50.0 49.4 48-2 47.0 46.7 45.8 52.7 48.8 :I,1.4 1 47.0 13.6 41.21 46.2 40.7 39.0 :1911 3819 3816 a5,8 3.xo 3' -3 34.01 - 28.0 11'.. 78-7 70,0 65-4 63.1 57.1 Colour of Eves and II air. Percentage proportion in each Class. Eyes light, w• ith Eves dark, with Light brown, green, or exceptional egcs, with light or dark hair Cot al Ilair Hair hair light dark red Kip, 261 { English 516 12.7 1 i'7 ( Irish . 65'0 ,3.7 :PI Girls 01;, (English 311$ 26'1 81 s t Irish . 50.0 18-3 6'1 Ph+/swat Improvement or Degeneracy of the Pojntlaion. 65. Few statistics are in existence which help to throw light on this subject. It is generally believed that the population in the manufacturing towns of the North of England is rapidly degenerating, but a comparison of the measurements of stature and weight given in the Report of the Factory Commissioners of 1833, and in the Report to the Local Government Board on ` Changes in Hours and Ages of Employment of Children and Young Persons in Textile Factories,' 1873, shows that this is not the case. On the Contrary, an examination of Table XXIV., showing these measurements, indicates a slight but uniform increase in stature, and a very large increase in weight, at corresponding ages. The increase in weight amounts to a whole year's gain, and a child of 9 y1 weighed as much as ono of 10 years it! 1833, one of 10 as much as one of 11, and one of 11 as much as one of 12 years in the two periods respectively. 66. As all example of the condition of a class living under most favourable conditions, a table (XXV.) showing the measurements of the boys in the Friends' (Quakers') School at York, extending over a period of Age Boys Girls 1835 187:1 1833 1873 No. Inches N, Inches No. Inches No. inches 17 48.14 126 48;30 30 47.97 1 1.1 48-31 10 , 256 1):> 41 49.62 201 50. 49 7.) -858 3:3 11 48 51'2(; 106 51 59 51 51.15 174 51'21 12 12 5se8 17:1 53-30 80 5:3.70 I 9 No. I I is. No. Whoa::. N o. Ills. No. lbs. 17 51.76 131; Ill'. 50 51-31 1:17 55.87 58 15 10 48 87.00 247 60.19 41 5-1.80 179 60.59 11 53 1;1.84 189 67.72 (;:1 59.69 180 65.37 12 42 65.97 167 69.76 80 66108 TABLE XXV.-Showing the average STATURE and WEIGH of Boys in the York Friends' School, for 27 years, 18i3-1879. " These, values are too low, due probably to some error of observation. M r. R. Clark, who furnishes the returns, is unable to account for the discrepancies in these year STATURE WEIGHT Age 97 yrs. 9 yrs. 1 9 yrs. 9 yrs. 27 yrs. 9 ~ rs. I) yrs. I 9 yre. first, No- of 185:t 185:3 1862 1871 185;3 I N:::3 1862 1871 Birth- Obs. to to to to to to to (lay 1879 1861 1870 1879 1879 181:1 18711 1879 9 13 inches inches inches 'inches 49.7 53• I Jim. lbs. lbs. ~ Ills. 51.5 51.4 62-9 6;3.2 *54"2 70-3 10 86 r". ':3 5:1.9 *51.6 54.7 68.5 *61-1 74-2 11 261 56.4 56.5 56.1 5(;• 5 79.7 7 81)-a 76.1 81.2 12 585 57.7 58.0 57.9 57-4 85-8 86.2 86.1 85.4 13 874 59.9 60.6 59.9 59.6 95.4 .13;•9 95.1) 95.0' 14 1117 62-I 62.1 62.3 61.9 106.0 105-8 107-0 105.4 15 1174 64.2 63.9 64-3 64.2 116.6 1113.5 117-2 117.2 16_ 515 66.1 65.4 66.1 66•:1 127.8 122.2 126.6 130.2 1~ 36 67.2 67.0 67.4 1368 1300 138.6 4661 Hair dark Hair fair Itair red 20.1 15'8 20.5 28.2 1.2 5•i, 8.4 1•i 1.2 t;•:3 100 6.7 1011 9.1 Ieo I•2 I 100 1