The Growth of Children. 



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Table No. 25. 

 Showing Average Weight of Clothes Worn hy School Children. 



This estimate is considerably larger than that given by 

 Qnetelet,* whose allowance for clothing is for boys y^ (5.5 

 per cent), and for girls o^ (4.17 per cent) of tlie gross weiglit. 

 This difference is, perhaps, to be in part acconnted for by the 

 fact that the pnpils whose clotlies were weighed were prob- 

 ably rather better clothed than the average children of tlie 

 same age ; for it was, of course, impossible to obtain, by the 

 method adopted, any data from the poorest classes of the 

 population, owing to their lack of an intelligent interest in 

 the matter. 



* Sur rHomnie, II, p. 44. 



