GRAPH K 



Average Weights of Native and Foreign Born Jewish and Italian 

 Boys and Girls, at Each Half-year Period, Ages 14 to 16 



DATIVE-BORN JEWS 

 FOREIGN-BORN JEWS 

 NATIVE-BORN ITALIANS 

 RN I 



Age 14-14 -j yrs 



15i 16-yrs. 



In weight there are also marked differences, as is seen in 

 Graph K. 



In the first half-year the American-born Jewish boys are 

 lighter than the foreign-born by an average of .62 pound. 

 They overtake them, however, in the succeeding period, weigh- 

 ing 2.22, .63 and 5.09 pounds more in the second, third and 

 fourth half-years respectively. For the two-year period as a 

 whole, native-born Jewish boys are .54 pound heavier than the 

 foreign-born. 



The native-born Jewish girls are 1.92 pounds lighter in 

 the first half-year, but heavier in the three succeeding half- 

 years by 1.32 pounds, 2.77 pounds and 3.24 pounds, respec- 

 tively. For the two years taken as a whole, the native-born 

 Jewish girls are .94 pound heavier than the foreign-born girls 

 of this race stock. 



Among Italians, the native boys are .27 inch taller in the 

 first half-year, but only .09 inch taller in the second. In the 



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