On the enlisting, discharging, and pensioning of soldiers : with the official documents on these branches of military duty / by Henry Marshall.

  • Henry Marshall
Date:
1832
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Credit: On the enlisting, discharging, and pensioning of soldiers : with the official documents on these branches of military duty / by Henry Marshall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (5 CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE CHEST. Table showing the average circumference of the Chests of the O O Recruits examined in the London District, from the 13th October 1838 to the 12th January 1839, inclusive, arranged according to the height of the Recruits. Town Recruits. Country Recruits. Aggregate. Height of the No. Aver. No. Aver. No. Aver. No. Aver. No. | Aver. No. Aver, Recruits. exa- size of found size of exa- size of found size of exa- size of found size of min. chest. fit. chest. min. chest. fit. chest. min. 1 chest. fit. chest. F. I. F. I. In.dec. In.dec. In.dec. In.dec. In.dec. In.dec. 5 5 to 5 6 83 32.44 53 32.54 23 32.77 20 32.66 106 32.51 73 32.57 5 6 to 5 7 425 32.03 279 32.19 233 32.71 197 32.80 658 32.15 476 32.44 5 7 to 5 8 223 32.24 127 32.53 103 33.11 93 33.13 326 32.52 220 32.79 5 8 to 5 9 122 32.57 79 32.81 of] 33.00 47 33.18 178 32.70 126 32.93 5 9 to 5 10 58 32.7G 33 32.59 28 33.75 23 33.57 86 33.08 56 33.00 5 10 to 5 11 44 32.54 27 32.94 13 33.61 8 33.81 57 32.77 35 33.14 5 11 to 8 G 20 32.92 10 33.0(1 3 33.67 2 35.00 23 33.02 12 33.33 and upwards 4 32.38 1 32.01 1 33.00 1 33.00 5 32.50 2 33.50 979 32.06 609 32.22 460 32.91 391 32.99 1439 32.47 1000 32.66 It will be observed that the average magnitude of the chest was about 32^ inches, the minimum of the whole number was 28 inches, and the maximum 37 inches. The magnitude of the chest does not appear by the above table to increase in the same ratio as the height, but the numbers examined above 5 feet 8 inches are too few to warrant a physiological conclusion on the subject. But it is the minimum not the maximum magnitude which it is of importance to settle, as is done in regard to the height of recruits. Perhaps no recruit should be approved whose chest does not measure 30 or 31 inches, even at the minimum height. Class of the population from which recruits are procured. rf }ie following statement is intended to show the state or con- dition of life of recruits, and the relative ratio of each trade or occupation among men who enlist at Dublin. A. table of this kind, embracing all the recruits enlisted for the whole army dur- ing a series of years, would be very interesting.