The physical examination and development of public school boys : based upon records of over 40,000 observations : a paper read before the Association on April 4th, 1899 / by Cecil Hawkins.

  • Hawkins, Cecil.
Date:
1900
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Credit: The physical examination and development of public school boys : based upon records of over 40,000 observations : a paper read before the Association on April 4th, 1899 / by Cecil Hawkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    nii: rnYsicM. i:xAMiy.\THts axd curve is formed from boys wlio were that height on • Miteriii llaileyburv. d'he second curve is from Hailey- bury boys of the same lieij^ht who have been throujzh the tlii-ee terms’ j^ymnasiic course. It lies about an inch above the tirst curve for tlie left hand half of its c<iurse. where imj)rovenient in chest-^irth is most necess;iry. d’he difference becomes less as we follow the curves to the rii^ht, until the two curves coincide at a point where the lowest curve is presumably princi})ally affected by the measurements of boys who have been ♦loinj' ijymnastics before they came to llaileyburv. The cor- rcsi)ondinfj: curve for School 1) is shown above; it runs 1 in. above the lowest curve throu‘j:hout its length. .Vlinost identical i-esults wt*re shown by similar trii)le sets of curves con^tructed at two more heights, llow much of this sui)eriority is due to difference in method of measurement, how much to difference in average age. Ikjw much to difference of race in the boys examined, how much to each of the other disturbing causes which have been mentioned, 1 cannot say. In order to test the (question of racial su})eriority, I wrote to another Scotch school, celebnited for the completeness of its l)hysical records, and begged for the loan of their re- gister for a few weeks ; but, unfortunately, no notice was taken of my ai)i)lication. The short curve marked II in Fig. 7 is the mean curve for Ilaileybury boys. It is valueless to indicate jjrobable growth, but it teaches a valuable lesson. It will be noticed that it l)egins below all the other schools at l.‘i, rims j)arallel to the A curve from III to 11, then by a vigorous twist darts up to a cor- resi)onding ])osition witli regard to B and (’ during the next six months, and continues in that i)osition until we lose it. Now, at Ilaileybury I only take general measure- ments of the boys, at the beginning and end of the three terms’ course of ])hy8ical training to which I have alreaily alluded ; almost all Ilaileybury boys enter the school be- tween the ages of lii and Tl, hence the fii*st half of this curve is taken almost exclusively from boys entering the school, the latter jiart from boys who have done their three terms’ coui*si‘. Here again the danger of selection