Legends for the tables are shown translated here :
Table I. (p. 29) Standard height and weight for American born Japanese, with Rohrer's index, from 6 to 17 years of age. This table has been prepared when the fourth annual measurements were finished in 1934, totalling 2, 232 children, from the arbitrarily smoothed up cuives. Now, since the last measurements are added, making a total of 2, 583 in 1935, the nevv smoothed-up curves are of course possible. But they do not show more than a very slight change. The standard curves of 1934, therefore, have been used in analyzing and comparing figures of five consecutive measurement lists.
Table 2. (p. 30 for boys) and 3. (p. 30 for girls) Measurements of American born Japanese children, from 1931 to 1935 inclusive, giving height, sitting height, iliac spine height, leg length, with values relative to stature, body types, weight and Rohrer's index.
Table 4. Measurements of American born Japanese childlen, from 1931 to 1935 inclusive, giving bicristal width, bisacromial width and their relative values to est-ature.
Table 5. A child with sitting height greater than the iliac spine height, is designated as of thoracic or T type. A child with sitting height less than the leg length, the leg or L type. If the sitting height is greater than the leg length but smaller than the iliac spine height, it is called the intermediate or M type.
The change in body types, as taken from the Table 2, and 3 should be as follows :
Boys, age 6-10, T TTML Girls, age 6-10, TTTML
But in reAlity, in examining individually the tables for five consecutive measurements, we find that the pe-rsistent L type for five times exists in 16 cases in boys, while in girls, 19 cases. There can be no conclusion drawn from it, except that the boys and girls alike, from 6 to 14 years of age, gradually proceed from T to M type and then to L tyr, after which boys seem to persist maintaining the L type, while gir's will again go back to the M type. In other words, the growth of legs overtakes that of thorax in the same way in boys and girls during the sexless age, that is, before the girls have the first menstruation. In boys, thereafter, the thorax never overtakes the leg, while the growth rate of girls' thorax increases again, overtaking the leg length slightly, making the ultimate type of girls to be M, and of boys to be L.
Table 7. Developmental Classes.
In studying the bodily development of the childrep from the individual data, the following four classes may be recognized; in height development as well as weight development.
Class A (puild and development goo d)
To this class belong all boys and girls whose 1931 value, 195 -value and, 4 years growth in height and weight are above the norm.
Class B (Development good.)
To this class belong those whose 4 years growth is above the norm although 1931 value or both 1931 and 1936 values do not quite reach the north.
Class C (Build and development subnormal)
To this class belong all whose 1931, and 1935 values as well as 4 years' growth are below normal. It may mean simple maldevlopment or hereditary small build, or from some unknown cause the growth retardatign period came a little earlier than average. These do not necessarily mean ill-health.
Class D (Development retarded)
To this class belong all whose 1931 value is above the norm, but the 4 years' growth is below tfe norm, the 1935 value being above or below the norm. Even those whose 1935 value is still above the norm, will sooner or later airop to below the norm, due to deficiency in development:
These classes apply to both height and weight. Those who have Class A height usually have Class A weight, but not always. The same is true with other classes.
Table 8, Ages of the first menstruat'on of American born Jar anes girls are found to be as follows :
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