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Children Born in 1932.—The Boys are 0.5 inches taller and
1.4 lbs. heavier on the average than the girls. The average minimum
weights of the boys is 1.4 lbs. more and their average minimum
height the same as the corresponding figures for the girls.
The average maximum weight of the boys is 0.9 lbs. less and their
average maximum height 0.6 inches taller than the girls.
Children Born in 1931.—The boys are 0.2 inches shorter and
1.0 lbs. heavier on the average than the girls. The average minimum
weights of the boys is 1.1 lbs. more and their average minimum
height 0.5 incnes shorter than the corresponding figures for the
girls. The average maximum weight of the boys is 0.8 less than
the girls, and their average maximum height 0.5 inches shorter than
for the girls
Children Born in 1929.—The boys are 0.4 inches taller and
1.4 lbs. heavier on the average than the girls. The average minimum
weight of the boys is 0.7 lbs. more and their average minimum
height the same as the corresponding figure for the girls. The
average maximum weight of the boys is 1.4 more than the girls,
and their average maximum height is 0.6 inches taller than the
girls.
Children Born in 1924 and 1925.—The boys in this group were
0.6 inches shorter and 1.3 lbs. lighter on the average than the girls.
The average minimum weight of the boys is 0.3 lbs. more, and their
average minimum height 0.5inches shorter than the girls. The
average maximum weight of the boys is 2.2 lbs. less and their
average maximum height 0.6 inches shorter than for the girls. In
this group as a whole the boys are shorter and lighter than the
girls, but the former are a more uniform group: the girls exhibiting
greater fluctuations around the mean average.