REPORT OF THE ANTHROPOMETRIC COMMITTEE. 299: 
twenty-seven years, is given. Allowing for one or two obvious errors of 
observation, the general run of the figures is very uniform, the statures 
remaining stationary, while there is a slight improvement in the weight 
at the higher ages in the last nine years. 
Taste XXIV.—Showing the average Srarure and Wetcur of Factory 
Children at an interval of 40 years, 1833-1873. (Stanway and Roberts.) 
STATURE. 
Boys Girls 
Age 
1833 1873 1833 1873 
No. Inches No. Inches No. Inches No. Inches 
9 17 48°14 126 48°30 30 47-97 144 48°31 
10 48 49:79 256 49°85 41 49°62 201 50°33 
11 53 51°26 196 51°59 51 51-15 174 51:21 
12 42 53°38 175 53°30 80 53°70 ar a 
WEIGHT. 
No. Ibs. No. Ibs. No. Ibs. No. lbs. 
9 17 51°76 136 58:15 30 51°31 137 55°87 
10 48 57:00 247 60°19 41 54°80 179 60°59 
11 53 61°84 189 67°72 63 59°69 180 65°37 
12 42 65°97 167 69°76 80 66:08 — — 
Tapte XXV.—Showing the average Sraturr and WeicuT of Boys in 
the York Friends’ School, for 27 years, 1853-1879. 
STATURE WEIGHT 
Age fs 27 yrs.| 9yrs.| Qyrs. | 9yrs.| 27 yrs. | Yyrs. 9 yrs. 9 yrs. 
last | No. of | 1853 | 1853 | 1862 1871 | 1853 1853 1862 1871 
Birth-| Obs. to to to to to to to to 
day 1879 | 1861 | 1870 1879 | 1879 1861 1870 1879 
inches| inches! inches | inches Ibs. lbs. lbs. lbs. 
9- 13 | 51:5 | 51-4 49-7 | 53-4 62°9 63:2 | *54:2 70:3 
10- 86 53°3 | 53:9 *51:6 | 54:7 68°5 716 *61-1 74-2 
ll- | 261 564 | 565 56:1 | 565 79°7 80:3 761 81:2 
12-] 585 | 57-7 | 58-0 57-9 | 57-4 85:8 862 861 85-4 
13- | 874 | 59:9] 60-6 59-9 | 59-6 95:4 96°9 95-0 95:0 
14— | 1117 | 62-1 | 62-1 62°3 | 61:9 1060 | 105:8 107-0 | 105-4 
15- | 1174 | 64:2 | 63-9 64:3 | 642] 1166] 1135 | 117-2) © 117-2 
16-/ 515 | 661 | 65-4 66-1 |} 66:3 | 127°3| 1222] 1266] 130-2 
2 SG gy | 67-0 | 67-4] 1363 iy 1300 | 138°6 
* These values are too low, due probably to some error of observation. Mr. R. 
Clark, who furnishes the returns, is unable to account for the discrepancies in these: 
year 
