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Health Department at the Town Hall. The Engineer at this meeting
presented a detailed plan of the vermin station, with an "equifex"
steriliser, and the Council agreed to the recommendation that an application
be made to the Local Government Board for sanction of a loan of
£600. for a period of 30 years, for the erection and equipment of the
disinfecting and cleansing stations in the Town Hall yard.
At their next meeting, the Baths Committee agreed to provide the
hot water and steam that may be required for the cleansing and disinfecting
stations, the question for any allowance for the same to stand
over until the stations are in working order.
Measurements.
The data given are the average heights; and weights, together with
the probable error, standard deviation, and co.efficient of variation. The
mean chest measurements are also given, (a) with chest fully expanded,
(b) with chest contracted, for the ages of five, six, ten, and thirteen. At
the other ages the probable errors are so high owing to the small number
of children examined, that the averages have little value as a record.
The mean weight of the boys of five is 17.43 kilogrammes, as
compared with 17.14 last year, an increase of 0.29 kilogrammes. The
probable error of the difference between the two years is only .07 kilogrammes,
so that there is a significant increase in the weight this year.
There is also ani increase in the weight of the girls of five this year. At
the other ages there is no significant difference.
The smallest child for its age was a boy, aged seven, whose weight
was 19.4 lbs, and height 31.2 inches. This boy has a sister at school
whose age is nine years, and weight 29.1 lbs.,, and height 37.2 inches.
The chest measurements are, with the exception of the boys of
six, considerably higher than those of last year, as the following table will
show, which gives the measurements of the expanded chest with the
differences in the two years to be expected from probable error. The
measurements were all taken by the same person, so that difference of
personal equation does not enter.