YOUTHS IN ENGLAND
HEAVIER AND TALLER
LONDON, June 14.
Bpys who are now 14 to i. 5 years old are on the average IClb. heavier add lin. taller than were boys of the same age in 1919. Div-Geo'ge Friend; medical officer of Christ Hospital School, reported today. * . • ■ Hovs now nine or 10 y*ars of age are 41k heavier and, a fifth of an inch taller than '.•,••"* their predecessors of 1919. Dr. Friend submitted. Apart from vein-, tive-lvr'W,''tni'ideuee of rheumatism, records of. general fitness have varied .veryj little, though physical measurements are improved.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18760, 17 July 1935, Page 11
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