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Croydon 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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GIRLS HEIGHTS. .Similar remarks apply, but the differences
between the two Elementary Schools are less marked, though
the Secondary School girls are individually taller than Oval Road
girls or the B.A. Committee.s average.
Table II.—GIRLS.
Height.
| Age last Birthday. | Certain Secondary Schools. | Oval Road School. | Princess Road School. | B.a. Anthropometric Committee, 1883. AH Classes. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number Examined. | Median height. | Number Examined. | Median height. | Number Examined. | Median height. | Number Examined. | Werage height. | |
| Inches. | Inches. | Inches. | Inches. | |||||
| 4 | .. | .. | 22 | 38.13 | 16 | 37 .50 | 99 | 38.26 |
| 5 | .. | .. | 41 | 41.00 | 29 | 40.00 | 157 | 40.55 |
| 6 | 11 | 46.75 | 45 | 44.00 | 32 | 41.63 | 189 | 42 .88 |
| 7 | 10 | 49.00 | 54 | 45.75 | 28 | 44.00 | 173 | 44.45 |
| 8 | 50.50 | 52 | 46.75 | 20 | 46.25 | 432 | 46.60 | |
| 9 | 11 | 52.50 | 57 | 49.75 | 33 | 48.00 | 499 | 48.73 |
| 10 | 21 | 54.00 | 51 | 51.00 | 25 | 50.50 | 480 | 51.05 |
| 11 | 28 | 55.50 | 57 | 53.00 | 20 | 52.86 | 441 | 53.10 |
| 12 | 30 | 58.25 | 52 | 54 .00 | 20 | 54.00 | 225 | 55.66 |
| 13 | 45 | 61.25 | 35 | 56.50 | 14 | 55.50 | 206 | 57.77 |
| 14 | 44 | 62.25 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 240 | 59.80 |
| 15 | 32 | 53.50 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 201 | 60.93 |
BOYS. WEIGHTS —Here again the Princess Road Boys are
inferior at all ages to those attending Oval Road School. The
Oval Road children are also below the B.A. standard for all classes,
though this was not so when height was compared. The Secondary
School boys are for the most part well in excess of all the other
groups.
Table III.—BOYS.
Weight.
| Age last Birthday. | Certain Secondary Schools | Oval Road School. | Princes? | Road School. | B.A. Anthropoinetiic Committee, 1883. All Classes. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number Examined. | Median weight. | Number Examined. | Median weight. | Number Examined. | Median weight. | Number Examined. | Average weight. | |
| Pounds. | Pounds. | Pounds. | Pounds. | |||||
| 4 | .. | .. | 29 | 36.75 | 29 | 35 .75 | 102 | 37.3 |
| 5 | .. | .. | 39 | 40.00 | *5 | 38.00 | 193 | 39.9 |
| 6 | 10 | 49.50 | 45 | 43.00 | 29 | 42.00 | 224 | 44.4 |
| 7 | 12 | 50.50 | 61 | 49.00 | 24 | 46.50 | 24O | 497 |
| 8 | 17 | 60.00 | 49 | 52.50 | 31 | 52.00 | 820 | 54.9 |
| 9 | 33 | 64.00 | 63 | 57.25 | .. | 56.00 | 1425 | 60.4 |
| 10 | 63 | 68.00 | 57 | 62.86 | 33 | 61.00 | 1464 | 67.5 |
| 11 | 87 | 71.50 | 55 | 69.00 | 23 | 1599 | 72.0 | |
| 12 | 97 | 77.00 | 70 | 71.75 | 30 | 71.50 | 1756 | 76.7 |
| 13 | 120 | 35.50 | 35 | 76.50 | 23 | 75.00 | 2443 | 82.6 |
| 14 | 118 | 94.00 | .. | .. | .. | 2952 | 92.0 | |
| 15 | 81 | 107.00 | .. | .. | 3118 | 102.7 | ||
| 16 | 41 | 124.00 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2235 | 119.0 |