THE ENGLISH GIRL.
AVERAGE HEIGHT GROMS. Rugby, Sept. 3. I’ll at the English girl is growing taller was an interesting statement made to-day to the anthropology section of the British Association by Mr. Parsons, Professor of Anatomy at London University. .He said that 20 years ago he measured the height of 150 students or the School of Medicine for Wo-iien, and found their average to be oft 3in. Ten years later their successors at the school had put up the height average by more than an inch. This year ho had measured 150 nurses and massage students at St. Thomas's Hospital, and their average height tvasioft 4 9-lOin. In 20 years, therefore, there had been a gain in r.verage height of practically two inches. Ju regard to men, Air. Parsons said that for the past 20 years ids students at St. Thomas’s Hospital had maintained-an average height of sft 9in.- '
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Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1204, 14 September 1927, Page 7
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