BIGGER ENGLISHMEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 139, 2 September 1927, Page 9

BIGGER ENGLISHMEN

IMPROVEMENT OF THE RACE SCIENTIST’S PREDICTION By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON", "Wednesday. At the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor F. G. Parsons, in his presidential address to the members of the anthropology section, indulged in interesting prophecies concerning Englishmen of the future. He sketched a growing knowledge of hygiene and study of child welfare. He pointed out that each generation was more sanely brought up than its predecessor. Rickets, opthalmia and ear disease had almost disappeared. Bad teeth, adenoids and septic tonsils would soon be extinct. The children in London’s poorest districts were now cheerful and fairly healthy. London was doing its utmost to change its C 3 population into an A 1 population. The average height of Englishmen to-day was sft sin. The better classes were sft 9in, which was probably the maximum average attainable. But great mental ability was seldom accompanied by great size. The heights of the better-class women in England had increased in 20 years from sft 3in to sft 4in. Nine-tenths of these heights were not necessarily the maximum. They might reach sft Tin. —Sun.