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CIRCUMFERENCE OF CHEST. 



(d.) ENGLISHMEN, 1,218 MEN. 



(e.) IRISHMEN, 3,152 MEN. 



Height. 



Number 

 of men. 



Mean girth of chest. 



Increase. 



Under 61 inches 



61 and nndcr 63 iuches 



63 aud uuder 65 iuches 



65 aud uudpr 67 iuchcB 



67 aud uuder 6'J iuches 



69 aud uuder 71 iuches 



71 aLd under 73 iuches 



73 iuches and over 



Total, and mean of total 



21 

 110 

 491 

 1,017 

 959 

 424 

 119 



11 



3, 152 



Indies. 

 33. 238 

 33. 455 

 34. 143 

 34. 352 

 34.776 

 34. 939 

 35. 462 

 36. 182 



34. 537 



Metres. 

 . 8442 



, .8498 

 . 8672 

 .8725 

 . 8833 

 .8875 

 .9007 

 .9190 



.8772 



Inches. 



.217 

 .688 

 .209 

 .424 

 .163 

 .523 

 .720 



Metres. 



.0056 

 .0174 

 .0053 

 .0108 

 .0042 

 . 0132 

 .0183 



(/.) GERMANS, 5,126 MEN. 



Height. 



Under fil iuches" 



61 aud uuder 63 inches 



63 aud uuder 65 inches 



65 and under 67 iuches 



67 aud uuder 69 iuches 



69 and under 71 inches 



71 and under 73 inches 



73 iuches and over 



Total, and mean of total 



Number 

 of men. 



43 



265 



898 



1,662 



1,4:38 



644 



149 



27 



5, 126 



Meau girth of chest. 



Inches. 

 33. 070 



33. 072 

 33. 728 

 34. 158 

 34. 020 



34. 966 



35. 489 

 35. 481 



34.295 



3Mres. 



.8400 

 . 8400 

 .8567 

 . 8676 

 .8793 

 .8881 

 .9014 

 . 9012 



.8711 



Increase. 



Inches. 



.002 

 .656 

 .430 

 .462 

 .346 

 . 523 

 -.008 



Metres. 



.0000 

 .0167 

 .0109 

 .0117 

 . O0S8 

 .0133 

 .0002 



It is not ail easy task to determine at what age the growth of the chest may be 

 considered as completed. Certain pursnits and occnpations, by cultivating the muscles 

 of the breast and back, and the deposition of fat at the approach of middle age, all tend 

 to produce some uncertainty as to the actual size of the thorax. Quetelet has fixed 

 upon the thirtietli year as the period of its matured growth.* M. Allaire observed a 

 marked increase from the eighteenth to the twenty-fifth year;" after the thirty-fifth year, 



' Anthropom4trie, x>. 458. 



^ Secneil de nidm. dc med., de chiriirr/. et depharm. miUlaires, 3e e^rie, t. x, p. 161, Paris, 1863. 



