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the material according to the occupations of the people who sub- 

 mitted to measurement. The average stature of each class was 

 calculated, and also the percentage of people of tall, medium and 

 short stature among them. Among these 1,528 men under 

 consideration, 720 (47. 1 2 percent) were engaged in indoor 

 occupations, including the various branches of tailoring, cobblers, 

 cigar-makers, weavers, bakers, etc.; 344 (22.51 percent) were 

 working outdoors, including carpenters, house painters, masons, 

 ironworkers, etc. ; 398 (26.65 percent) were engaged in mer- 

 cantile pursuits, as clerks, etc., 130 were peddlers; 66 in the 

 class generally called professional class, including the liberal 

 professions and also students. The accompanying table (IX) 

 shows the results of this inquiry. It will be observed that the 

 tallest were the professional men reaching 169.9 ^^- ^^ height. 

 They also had the largest proportion of tall men — 34.85 per- 

 cent. The clerks and merchants come very close with 169.2 

 and 168.7 c"^- respectively, in height. Beside these we note the 

 peddlers, who though classed with the merchants, still are rather 

 short, only 164.3 ^"^- The reason is apparent, the percentage 

 of short people among them was 18.47, ^^^^ tall, 170 cm. and 

 over only 17.60. Coming to the people engaged in outdoor 

 occupations we note that their average stature was 166.4 cm., 

 two cm. above that for the Jews in New York City. Nearly 23 

 percent of them were 1 70 cm. and over in height as against only 

 19 among the Jews generally, and while the latter show 23.3 

 percent of short people averaging less than 160 cm. in height, 

 such who are engaged in outdoor occupations, have only 20.93 

 percent of such deficient persons. 



Masons and house painters were the tallest of this class while 

 the carpenters were the shortest. When we come to consider 

 those engaged in indoor occupations, we are at once struck by 

 the alarming proportion of short people, 30.98 percent were 

 less than 160 cm. in height, and in addition to this the propor- 

 tion of tall persons, 1 70 cm. and over, are found to be only 12.17 

 percent. We can add that only one of these was 178 cm., six 

 feet tall, and he was not a tailor in his early years; only after 

 emigrating to the United States at the age of twenty-one he 



