ANTHROrOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS IX SCHOOLS. 503 



Antlvropometric Measurements in Scliools. — Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Professor A. Macalister {Chairman), Professor B. 

 WiNDLE (Secretary), Mr. E. W. Brabrook, Professor J. Cleland, 

 and Dr. J. G. Garson. 



During the past year it has not been deemed advisable to issue any- 

 further circular, and the work done has been confined to forwarding copies 

 of the instructions printed with last year's report and advising school- 

 masters, medical men, and others as to the taking up and carrying 

 on of physical measurements in the institutions with which they are 

 connected. 



From the number of communications which have reached the Secre- 

 tary, it is evident that considerable interest has been awakened in the 

 minds of teachers by the circulars of last year. The first report of school 

 measurements (by Dr. Lancelot Andrewes) which have been carried out 

 under its instructions has recently been forwarded to the Secretary. The 

 Committee ask for reappointment for another year without further grant, 

 the balance of that for 1894-95 being expected to suffice for the ensuing 

 twelvemonth. 



Mental and Phijsiccd Defects of Children. — Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Sir Douglas Galton {Chairman), Dr. Francis 

 Warner {Secretary), Mr. E. W. Brabrook, Dr. J. G. Garson, a7id 

 Dr. Wilberforce Smith. {Report drawn up by the Secretary.) 



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I. Defects enumerated individually and in groups as distributed amongst 



tlie Nationalities and Social Classes, cj'c. 506 



II. Groxqjs of Children and their Percentage Distrihution on the numters 



seen and numbers noted 508 



The Committee, acting in conjunction with a committee appointed for 

 the same purpose by the International Congress of Hygiene and Demo- 

 graphy (1891), in presenting their third report are able to give a further 

 account of the 50,000 children seen individually during the years 

 1892-94. 



The methods of observation and the points observed were fully de- 

 scribed in our first report. Analysis of the points observed in each child 

 afibrds material for the arrangement of groups of cases, prepared by esta- 

 blished actuarial processes, their distribution, and their co-relations, and 

 enables us to give results of scientific interest and importance, and also to 

 give evidence on questions concerning the education of children and their 

 control by the State. 



We proceed to give the results of research among the 8,941 cases 

 (boys 5,112, girls 3,829) of whom notes were taken as to the points in 

 which they were below the average in bodily or mental status. 



As a step towards ascertaining the causation of defects, and the 

 most probable means of removing them, we have arranged the children 



