Further investigation on the body weight and length in a total of 26, 771 pupils belonging to 31 primary and middle schools in Fukuoka prefecture in the year 1957 was undertaken, and the results were studied as to the differences in the growth rates between urban and suburban subjects. Comparison was also made with those data of the years 1948 and 1951 obtained by the investigators of the same laboratory in Fukuoka Prefecture and also with the average data of whole country in 1939. The results were summarized as follows. 1. Increments of body weight and length from 6 to 14years of age in the urban and suburban regions : The body length increased by 42.51cm in the male and 41.17cm in the female in the urban subjects, 42.13cm in the male and 35.19cm in the female in the suburban subjects. The body weight increased by 25.24kg in the male and 26.03kg in the female in the urban region, and in the suburban 23.97kg in the male and 26.34kg in the female. the male slightly excels in body length, and the female slightly excels in body weight, The increase is especially marked in middle school pupils, being in the most vigorous growth atage of life. 2. Comparison of the physique in 1957 between the urban and suburban subjects including both sexes reveals that there is no appreciable difference. 3. Comparison of the data in 1957 to the nation-wide data in 1939 reveals that in the body length of total population examined the former excelled by 0.5 to 0.8cm in the male and by 0.6 to 8.4cm in the female, and in the body weight by 0.1 to 3.1kg in the male and 0.1 to 4.7kg in the female. 4. The present examination reveals that body length and weight increased in the order from 1939 to 1942 and 1957. The body length in the last examination excels that of 1939 by 0.35 to 19.09cm in the male, by 1.01 to 16.14cm in the female, and excels that of 1942 by 0.03 to 3.94cm in the male, by 0.50 to 5.68cm in the female. Body weight in the last examination excels that of 1939 by 0.25 to 13.63kg in the male, by 0.68 to 12.20kg in the female, and excels that of 1942 by 0.12 to 2.24kg in the male, by 0.06 to 2.49kg in the female. It would be concluded that the growth in 13 to 14 years stage is most marked in every respects, and that the growth in the female is more marked than in the male in the urban as in the suburban regions.
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