Experimental study of children : including anthropometrical and psycho-physical measurements of Washington school children, and a bibliography / by Arthur MacDonald.

  • United States. Bureau of Education.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Experimental study of children : including anthropometrical and psycho-physical measurements of Washington school children, and a bibliography / by Arthur MacDonald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    9D6 ANTHROPOMICTIUCAL. Weight, ; lung caipacity, ; deptli of chest, ; width of chest, ; circumfereuce of chest, ; height, ; sitting height, ; streugth of lift, ; of ai-ms, ; of riglit-li.ind grasp, ; of left-hand grasp, ; total streugth, ; is the subject left-handed? ; maximum length of head, ; maximum width of head, ; cephalic index, ; distance between zygomatic arches, ; between external edges of orbits, ; between corners of eyes, ; length of nose, ; width of nose, ; height of nose, ; nasal index, ; length of ears, right, ; left, ; length of hands, right, ; left, ; width of mouth, ; thickness of lips, . PSYCHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL. Least sensibility to locality, right wrist, ; left wrist, ; least sensi- bility to heat, right wrist, ; left wrist, ; least sensibility to contact on the skin, ; least sensibility to pain by pressure of two points, ; least sensibility to pain by pressure, right temporal muscle, ; left temporal muscle, ; least sensibility to smell, right uostrll, ; left nostril, ; least sensibility of muscle sense to weight, right hand, ; left hand, ; pulse, ; respiration, . SOCIOLOGICAL. Nationality of father, ■—; nationality of mother, ; nationality of grand- father, father's side, ; mother's side, ; nationality of gTandmother, father's side, ; mother's side, ; occupation of parents, • education of parents, . ABILITY IN STUDIES. Bright, dull, or average, in general, ; in arithmetic, ; algebra, ; grammar, ; drawing, ; geography, ; history, ; music, ; reading, ; spelling, ; penmanship, ; German, ; French, ; Latin, ; Greek, ; geometry, ; physics, ; science, ; manual labor, ; etc., . (Answer after each study and for other studies not mentioned. When in doubt as to brightness or dullness, mark person average.) ABNORMAL OR PATHOLOGICAL. If abnormal or peculiar, name in what way, ; unruly, ; sickly, ; defects in speech, ; defects in sight, ; defects in hearing, . Palate, ; aural asymmetry, ; cephalic, ; palpebral tissures, ; froutals, ; expression, .; hand balance, ; nutrition, ; pigmentation, ; ptosis, ; rachitism, ; epilepsy, ; lordosis, ; kyphosis, ; scoliosis, ; other defects, . Eemarka: 11. WASHINGTOIs SCHOOL CniLDRB]>T. WashiDgtou is a resideutial city with comparatively few foreigners. The woll-to do aud poorer classes among the whites are more equally divided than in most cities. There is a very general representation from all States among the residents. For these reasons a study and measurement of the school childreu of Washington may be capable of more general application to Americans as a whole. In the study of the Washington school childreu several lines of inves-