抄録
1) Nine-hundred schoolchildren in Fukushima City were measured in July, 1966.
2) Compared with the average shown in the national statistics issued in 1966, schoolchildren investigated are a little taller and slightly slenderer.
3) Differences in stature, body-weight, chest girth and shoulder breadth between two neighboring grades are significant for each grade. The maximum difference is seen between 5 th and 6 th grades for girls and 8 th and 9 th grades for boys. Girls in the seventh grade are superior as for these items, and the ninth grade boys surpass girls as for all items.
4) On the whole, shoulders of junior high pupils are less sloping than those of elementary schoolchildren, and this tendency towards “square shoulders” is observed among the junior high boys. Girls' shoulders always are more sloping, and this sexual difference becomes obvious among higher graders.
5) Shoulder inclination has little correlation to stature, chest girth or shoulder breadth.
