Hrdlicka. 



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Weight. 



If we desire to compare the weight of the inmates of the Juvenile 

 Asylum with weight of children outside of the institution we have 

 again the data collected in Boston from school children by Dr. 

 Bowditch and those collected in Worcester by Drs. West and Boas. 

 In both of these cases the weights are quite similar and hence only 

 one need be stated for comparison. In both cases, however, the chil- 

 dren were weighed in their clothing, which, according to Bowditch, 

 whose figures we will state, amounted in average to 7.99 per cent, of 

 the total weight in the boys and 6.81 per cent, of the total weight in 

 the girls. If we should reduce these percentages of pounds from the 

 weight of the Boston school children we should find that the weight 

 was much nearer to the average weight of the children in the Juven- 

 ile Asylum. Nevertheless it would still be somewhat greater. The 

 excess is undoubtedly due to the same causes to which was due the 

 smaller stature in the asylum children, namely, to mal-nutrition re- 

 sulting from the poverty of the parents of the children. 



Weight— Males.* 



(1) Average weight of asylum children. (2) Average weight of Boston school children.! 



All nationalities, t Weight of clotbiDg not deducted. 



