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INCONVENIENT INCREASE BEDS AND BERTHS TOO SHORT Dr. 7 Janet Greig, medical inspector for the' Education Department, in an address 11 the Medical Congress held in Hobart recently, predicted that the time was coming when the excessive height of Australians would be highly inconvenient. "Already," Dr. Greig said, "doorways in trains and trams are too low for - many men, and the average bed and ship's berth are becoming too short. For a long time I have been astonished at the amazing height of our adolescents at 14, 15 and 16 years of age, but in recent years it is the height of girls of 12 and 13 that is surprising."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21736, 27 February 1934, Page 6
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