privileges which were accorded them, under the law exempting 

 them from school attendance, at their first opportunity. 



HEIGHT 



Heights given in the Health Department records are for 

 children in shoes, to the nearest quarter-inch. Comparative 

 tests made by the examiners showed that the shoes gave an 

 error in the net heights of from f to 1 inch for boys, and from 

 Ij to 2 inches for girls. In the following tabulations, heights 

 are given in one-inch units, each including all values to the 

 next unit; thus r 61 inches includes 61|, 61 J and 61f inches. 



The following table gives the distribution of the boys and 

 girls for the two-year period, by heights in inches: 



TABLE 3 



Number and Percentage of Boys and Girls, Ages 14 to 16, at 

 Each Inch of Height 



Also Average Heights, Standard Deviations and Quartile Heights. 



Average height 



Standard deviation ( <r ) 



First quartile 



Second quartile (Median) . . . 

 Third quartile 



BOYS 

 (Inches) 



61.99 

 3.Q8.020 

 59.91 

 61.99 

 64.17 



GIRLS 

 (Inches) 



61.35 

 2.38.017 

 59.88 

 61.31 

 62.93 



The height class "54 and under" includes heights ranging 

 down to 49 inches for boys, and down to 50 inches for girls; 

 "69 and over" includes heights ranging up to 72 inches for 

 boys and up to 7 1 inches for girls. The number of children at 



