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BIRTHPLACE OF 46,870 PUPILS IN THE ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
St. Louis. sewer crea et en Ceres oOertetesnwnu eee eas 79.26 % 
Other Parts of the United Statese: o..vcccccsvcctceesceleeeusee ee 
Ser arent sve SS7s ieee eee eee 0.63 
Bee ete ees Be eset eeene reece rece osecs peeeeee 0.19 Lid 
conuis State ste teeeeceeeccecese sees renssseeeees 1,97 
Other Forelga¢ Cannkitan. O50. 00ds-00beht heed bas kpad esha dana 0.87.4 
BENOWD 5.66006 ccsees cree ewes es oe 0.16 *‘ 
ROB ois tne bbc vive sewantas este home . 100 
The children of foreign birth are too few to affect the 
results of the measurements, and the number of children born 
in or near St. Louis is such that the middle values obtained 
must be taken as characteristic for this community. 
The children of foreign parentage are of course much more 
numerous than those of foreign birth. The number of Ger- 
mans is especially large. The median weights of boys and 
girls whose parents were born in Germany are compared in 
Tables No. 15 and 16, with children of American parentage. 
TABLE No. 15.* 
THE WEIGHTS OF GIRLS WHOSE PARENTS WERE BORN IN GERMANY COM- 
PARED WITH THE WEIGHTS OF GIRLS WHOSE PARENTS WERE BORN IN 
THE UNITED STATES. 
GERMAN. AMERICAN. 
Age ain Number of _— wore Numberof | Age at 
Neare Observa- (Kilo- : (Kilo- : Observa- | Nearest 
Birthday. tions. grammes) | grammes) tions. Birthday. 
6 310 19.15 18.7 6 
7 683 20.86 20.82 861 7 
8 796 23.17 22.71 1082 8 
9 796 25.09 25.07 1023 9 
10 725 27.65 27.43 1029 10 
11 753 29.61 29.93 8 11 
12 715 33.42 33.17 779 12 
13 518 37.58 38.29 648 13 
14 331 42.56 43.12 565 14 
15 186 46.77 46.90 403 15 
16 49.73 50 265 16 
17 49 53.93 52.12 131 17 
18 43 52.59 54.03 100 18 
19 22 54,26 52.90 40 19 
52.67 33 20 
* The birth-place of the girls themselves is not considered in this table. 
+ A few were born in Cana 
