Report Upon the Physical Condition of Children Attending Public Schools in New South Wales (with Special Reference to Height, Weight, and Vision), Based Upon Statistics Obtained as a Result of the Introduction of a Scheme of Medical Inspection of Public (Paperback)

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. 1908 Excerpt: ...High Schools (M ait land and Newcastle). Dotted Line Average for all boys examined in N.S.W. EXPLANATION. In the above Graphs, the height and weight of bays and girls attending the Public High Schools in Sydney are compared with those attending the Country High Schools. The ages range from 12 to 19 years, but the numbers of pupils of the extreme ages are small. The dotted lines, denoting the height and weight of the average boy and girl in the State, are inserted for purposes of comparison. 'The age in each casl is the age at last birthday. EXPLANATION. In this Graph a comparison is made of the measurements, at various ages, of girls in the well-to-do and poorer districts of Sydney. The dotted lines indicate the average for the metropolitan district. 94042 Graph No. 17 shows that, in general, High School girls are of hetter physique, age for age, than girls attending public schools. The curves indicate, however, that at ages 18 and 19 the Sydney High School girls fall helow the State average in height, and that at 17 and 18 they show a similar decline in weight. Reference has already been made to the superior physique of Jjj8TM the children from the well-to-do districts of Sydney, as compared with KpSiifaii ages. that of the children of poorer districts. Graph No. 18 compares boys from both districts at each age in their school life, and also affords a comparison of both with the average boy in the metropolitan district. The dark curve indicates the poor boy, the fine curve the well-to-do boy, and the dotted curve the Sydney average. At age 5 there is little difference between the three boys; in fact, the poor boy is taller, though of slightly less weight, than the average Sydney boy. This circumstance seems to denote that the poor boy is not unduly handica...