HEIGHT AND WEIGHT OF SCHOOL CHILDKEN 
IN GLASGOW 
By ETHEL M. ELDERTON, Galtou Fellow, University of London. 
In 1905-6 an enquiry was made in the Public Schools of the School Board for 
Glasgow as to the height and weight of all the scholars, the occupation of the 
parents, the number of rooms occupied etc. By permission of Sir John Struthers, 
of the Scottish Education Office, these schedules were most kindly placed at the 
disposal of the Galton Laboratory. 
The number of children concerning whom the enquiry was made is over 
seventy thousand of ages .5 to 18 years. The schools from which these children 
came were divided into four groups according to the district in which the schools 
were situated. 
Group A comprised schools in the poorest districts of the city. 
,, B „ „ in poor districts of tlie city. 
„ C „ ,, in districts of a better class. 
„ D „ „ in districts of a still higher class with which are 
included four out of five Higher Grade Schools. 
The data were originally used by the Galton Laboratory with the object of 
discovering how far the physique of school children, judged by their height and 
weight, is affected by the occupation of the father and the employment of the 
mother. With this end in view the necessary data were entered on cards. 
Children over 14 were excluded and all children who had not both parents alive 
were also excluded; this left us with 30,965 girls and 32,811 boys. 
The object of the present paper is to ascertain what is the average weight of 
a child of a given age and a given height. 
The first step in this enquiry was to sort the cards and form tables giving the 
distribution of weight for each height at each age in each school group, and this 
laborious work was carried out very largely by Miss Augusta Jones ; this step 
necessitated making 72 tables, and she is responsible for 58 of them while the 
