vigor as compared to the average condition of the immigrant 

 children. It therefore appears that the south Italian race 

 suffers under the influence of American city life, while the east 

 European Hebrew develops under these conditions better than 

 he does in his native country."* This interpretation is clearly 

 corroborated by our figures. 



Comparing the figures of the native-born Jewish and Italian 

 children with those of native-born of native parentage as given in 

 Table 13 (page 24), we find that, although the native-born Jewish 

 boys are taller than the foreign-born, they are nevertheless shorter 

 than the native-born of native parentage by .28 inch for the 

 two years. As regards weight, however, the native Jewish boys 

 are in the lead. Their average weight for the two years is 

 107.17 pounds, exceeding that of the native-born boys of native 

 parentage by 1.56 pounds. Among girls, the relationship is 

 almost the same. The native Jewish girls are inferior in stature 

 to the American girls by .21 inch, but in weight they are nearly 

 equal to the native girls of native parentage, the difference in 

 favor of the latter being only .08 pound. 



The native-born Italian boys are 1.17 inches shorter and 

 .45 pound lighter than the native boys of native parentage. 

 Native-born Italian girls are 2.10 inches shorter and 2.87 

 pounds lighter than native girls of native parentage. 



SUGGESTED STANDARDS OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT 



The examining officer, whose duty it is to determine the 

 fitness of children to be subjected to the strain of industrial 

 work, has a large discretionary power. It is important that 

 he should have at his disposal bases for determining in some 

 way, other than by personal impression, the question of whether 

 or not. an applicant conforms tp reasonable standards. How, 

 then, shall we proceed with the establishment of norms to 

 govern the solution of this problem and what shall these 

 norms be? 



We have observed above that there are differences in the 

 heights and weights of the children of the various nationalities. 

 These differences are, however, too slight to warrant the 

 adoption of special standards for each nationality. We shall, 

 therefore, consider this subject without distinction for the race 

 groups. Such standards as we shall develop will take into 



""'Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants", page 62. 



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