296 REPORT—1883. 
has stated that man attains his maximum height at the age of 30 years, 
and maintains it up to 50 years, after which it begins to recede, and at 
90 it has lost three inches. This may be, and probably is, true of indivi- 
duals if measured from year to year, but it does not appear to be true of 
the population in the aggregate. The loss of stature resulting from the 
degeneration and loss of tissue, and the stooping position assumed by 
old people, is more than counterbalanced by the survival of a greater 
number of individuals who are above the average in height. The 
uniform increase in the weight and chest-girth throughout adult life also 
confirms this view. 
Industrial Schools. 
64. The statistics referring to Industrial School children of both sexes 
are given in a separate form, as illustrating the physique of children bred 
under the most unfavourable conditions of life. Boys of this class of the 
age of 14 years are nearly seven inches (6°83) shorter of stature and 242 
Ibs. lighter in weight than the lst or Standard Class of the foregoing 
tables. The returns sent in by Mr. R. Sutton from the Swinton School, 
near Manchester, are the most complete in all their details which the Com- 
mittee has received from any source, and they may be accepted as models 
of what such returns ought to be. 
Taste XXI.—Comparative Table of Boys and Girls in Industrial Schools. 
| Number of | 
: : : | 
Dheteratiens | Height Weight Chest-girth | Span of Arms 
ao g | 2 ia.) 8 | 3 | 2 | elisa 
= 2 = oe a Z i | 2 i Z 
inches | inches |_ Ibs. Ibs. | inches | inches | inches | inches 
16- 7 — | 57:64) — | 93°92} — | 29:25; — | 57:50| — 
15- 58 1 | 55°43 | 56:50] 85°50} 67:50] 28:30, — | 57-17] 58°50 
14- 102 33 | 54:46| 55°00) 77°35) 81:25) 27-29, — | 54°72) 54:21 
13- 221 58 | 53:23) 52:°98| 72°31] 72°76| 26°31; — | 52°45) 53°60 
12- 205 66 | 51°79} 51:16] 67°40| 68°25) 25°85; — | 50-10} 51-28 
1l- 158 63 | 49°11| 51°48) 63:19! 60°96] 24:17) — | 49°15) 49-11 
10- 191 60 | 48:09] 47°70| 56°76| 56:00| 23°97, — | 47°46) 47-21 
9- 100 70 | 47:02| 46:44] 52:40) 52°77] 23°30, — | 45:30) 45°41 
8- 69 66 | 44°61) 44°68) 47°13) 47°79] 22°58; — | 43:20) 43°46 
7- 64 45 | 43°54) 42°38} 45°70) 44:05] 22°16; — | 41:23) 41°95 
6- 46 47 | 41:14} 41°15] 40°43| 40°66] 21°95; — | 40°30} 39°50 
| 5- 37 43 | 38°63} 39:22) 36°68} 36°98] 21-42; — | 38:10) 38:25 
{ 4- 9 19 | 36:27| 37:07| 33°61| 34:09} 20°50; — | 35:00) 35:90 
: 3- 5 10 | 34:50| 35°50| 30°50| 32:50} — — | 33:25] 32°50 
2- —_ ll — | 31:95) — | 26-77) — — — | 29°50 
es — 4 — | 27:00} — | 16:21) — -- “= — 
6 & under |) aaa : 
12 months ys a 4 a 26 25 — 16 66 = —— =— mae 
0 & under a . ‘ 
Alesis } 1 | 1 | 2350] 27-50] 11-00] 1250] — | — | — | — 
Total 1,273] 601 
