120 METABOLISM AND GROWTH FROM BIRTH TO PUBERTY. 



TABLE 28. Minimum heat production of girls at different ages. 



[Children normal unless otherwise stated. The data indicated by asterisks (*) were not 

 used on the general metabolism charts for girls (figs. 23 to 47, pages 135 to 175) or on the anthropo- 

 metric charts (figs. 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, and 14, pages 43 to 68) but were used, along with the other 

 data in this table, on the individual charts for these children (figs. 15 to 21, pages 114 to 130).] 



1 Previously reported under initials given by Benedict and Talbot, Am. Journ. Diseases of 



Children, 1914, 8, p. 1. Data for girl designated by initials A. C. also reported by Benedict 

 and Talbot, Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. No. 201, 1914. Results for Nos. 2, 12, 26, 35, 48, 

 and 49 reported under the same subject number by Benedict and Talbot, Carnegie Inst. 

 Wash. Pub. No. 233, 1915. 



2 Lissauer surface. 



3 Data as previously published incorrect. x 



4 Certainly breast-fed. Probably many others were, but we are uncertain. 

 6 Slightly undernourished. 



6 During second year had colds; continued to develop normally; breast-fed. 



