Experiments have indicated that dull blue walls in operating rooms are helpful to the surgeon, causing less eye strain than white. Montreal. —According to measurements and tests of students attending McGill University here, the modern young woman is taller, heavier and healthier than were the girls of 35 years ago. Tests have been carried out in the University since 1904 and it has been found out that the girl student of that year averaged 62.7 inches in height and weighed 119 pounds while their sisters of today are taller by 1.2 inches and weigh 125 pounds.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 2
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