A Manual of Antropometry; Or, a Guide to the Physical Examination and Measurement of the Human Body: Containing a Systematic Table of Measurements, an Anthropometrical Chart or Register, and Instructions for Making Measurement on a Uniform Plan
A Manual of Antropometry; Or, a Guide to the Physical Examination and Measurement of the Human Body: Containing a Systematic Table of Measurements, an Anthropometrical Chart or Register, and Instructions for Making Measurement on a Uniform Plan
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: ...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 ...
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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: ...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 men born and living under the most favourable conditions of breeding, nurture, F occupation, climate, exercise, and sanitary surroundings. They come under the first division of Class I. (persons of rank and outdoor professions) of the classified table of occupations given at p. 42, and are derived from the following sources: Public schools--Eton, Marlborough, Wellington, Haileybury, Clifton, Radley, and Magdalen; Britannia Training-ship for Naval Cadets; Woolwich Academy and Sandhurst College for Military Cadets; Oxford and Cambridge Universities; and St. George's Hospital Medical School. Tables VI. VII. and VIII. may be accepted as a standard of the physique of the English labouring classes living in large towns, being the me...
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