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the average height of Jews and Poles respectively, dividing the city 

 into districts. The social status of these districts is shown npon our 

 third map. Comparison of these three brings out a very interesting 

 sociological fact, to which we have already called attention in our 

 earlier papers.* The stature of men depends in a goodly measure 

 upon their environment. In the wards of the city where prosperity 

 resides, the material well-being tends to produce a stature distinctly 



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above that of the slums. In both cases, Poles and Jews are shortest 

 in the poorer sections of the city, dark tinted on the maps. The 

 correspondence is not exact, for the number of observations is rela- 

 tively small; but it indicates beyond a doubt a tendency commonly 

 noticeable in great cities. But to return to our direct comparison 

 of Poles and Jews; the deficiency of the latter, as a people, is per- 

 fectly apparent. The most highly favored Jewish population so- . 



* Popular Science Monthly, vol. li, p. 20 et seq. (May, 1897), and vol. lii, p. 602 (March, 

 1898). 



