Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1871 — Weight for Inches. [ARTICLE]

Weight for Inches.

An article in the Herald of Health says that one of the earliest efforts made to obtain anything like a fixed relation between bight and weight was that of Dr. Boyd, who weighed a number of inmates at St. Marleybouc Work house, England. He took the hight and weight of one hundred and eight persons laboring under consumption, and found they averaged five feet and seven inches in hight and sixty pounds in weight. lie then measured und weighed one hundred and forty-one persons who were not consumptive, and found that their average hight was five feet three inches and that they weighed oue hundred and thirty-four pounds. This subject attracted the attention of the late Dr. John Hutchinson, and lie determined to take the hight and weight of all clufcses of persons in this community. In this way he collected the hight and weight of upward of five thousand perilfins. The following table, according to his calculation, shows the relation which should exist between hight and weight in a healthy iierson, speaking generally, of course : Hight” Weight. 5 feet 1 inch ISO pounds “5 mt S Inches I*> pound* 5 feet 8 Inches 188 pounds 5 feet 4 Inhce* 189 pounds 5 feet 5 Inches 1« pounds 5 Tect H Inches 145 pounds 5 reet 7 inches 148 pounds 5 feet S inches 155 pounds 5 feet 9 inches lßSponnds 5 feet 10 Inches 109 pounds 5 feet 11 inches 174 pounds 6 feci pounds