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shows an increase of 3.7 cm. in the first generation. The increase 

 in stature is yet better displayed in the accompanying table 

 showing the proportion of individuals at a given class of stature 

 accordingly to the four divisions of stature in which our material 

 has been divided. 



Table X. 



Stature of Native and Foreign Jews. 





Foreign Jews 



Native 



Jews. 





Number. 



Percent. 



Number. 



Percent 



Short. 



Below the Average. 



Above the Average. 



Tall. 



345 

 4>o 



379 

 250 



24-57 

 3063 

 26.99 

 17.81 



II 



30 

 41 



42 



8.87 

 24.19 

 33-07 

 33-87 



Total. 



1404 



100.00 



124 



100.00 



From this table we find that while among the Jews born in 

 Eastern Europe 24.57 percent were of short stature (less than 

 160 cm.), there were only 8.87 percent of native Jews thus 

 deficient in .body-height. On the other hand, tall men, 170 

 cm. in height and upward, are found among the native Jews 

 33.87 percent, as against only 17.81 percent, among their 

 immigrant parents. The proportion of persons of medium 

 height, 160 to 170 cm., is about the same in both groups. 



We can see in this a process of double selection at work. 

 The immigrants are taller on the average than the people of whom 

 they spring, as we have already seen. That stature is trans- 

 mitted by heredity is not to be questioned. When to this are 

 added other factors which are favorable to healthy growth of 

 the body, we have good reasons for the superior stature of the 

 native American Jews. Here during the period of most active 

 growth, the Jewish child attends a modern public school, instead 

 of the insanitary '* Cheder" (Jewish school) in Eastern Europe ; 

 during adolescence the Jew here engages mostly in outdoor 

 occupations, instead of the sweatshops which is the work shop 

 of many of the immigrant Jews (only five of the 124 native 

 Jews were engaged at work in sweatshops). Besides this, the 

 native Jewish youth in the East side in New York City enjoys 



