A manual of anthropometry or A guide to the physical examination and measurement of the human body

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...mean heights and weights corresponding to each age should be arranged in parallel columns, and the weights corresponding to each even inch determined by interpolation. The tracing on Diagram III., showing the relation of the weights to the heights given in Tables I. and II., has been constructed on this plan, and the following figures will show how it was effected: See the Physical Requirements of Factory Children (London, 1876). 'The Growth of Children,' by H. P. Bowditch, M.D., Eighth Annual Report State Board of Health, Massachusetts (Boston, U.S., 1877). Thus, for each inch in height the weight is increased 4lbs. from 10 to 15 years; 6 lbs. from 15 to 16; 8 lbs. from 16 to 19; and from 19 to 30 years of age there is 6 lbs. added to the weight, while the height remains stationary. CHAPTER VI. STATISTICAL TABLES. TN combining into statistical tables the measurements and observations obtained in the manner I have indicated in the foregoing pages, it is of the utmost importance that a uniform plan should be adopted, to admit of ready comparison of the results of different observers. Statistical tables, moreover, should be constructed with a completeness of detail which will preclude the possibility of doubt, or of mistakes being made even by persons imperfectly acquainted with the subjects to which they refer. They should also be diagramatic, in order that the eye may take in at a glance the relation of the facts which they are intended to portray. I submit the following original tables of the height, weight, and chest-girth of two classes of the English population, as examples of my method of treating anthropometrical statistics. Tables I. to V. inclusive may be accepted as the highest standard of our English race, as the measurements are those of boys and...