. The Bacteriological world and modern medicine . years of age. Dr. M. Anna Wood, of Wellesley Col-lege, has measured 1,100 women betweenthe ages of 19 and 21 years. Her meas-urements make the height of the aver-age American woman to be 63 inches,waist inches; percentage of waist toheight 39. The Telugu women of India, as I aminformed by Miss Cummings, who kindlymade a large number of measurementsfor me, sustain the skirt, which formsalmost their only clothing, by means ofa cord tied around the waist and drawnas tightly as possible. This is doubtlessthe reason for the small waists of thes
. The Bacteriological world and modern medicine . years of age. Dr. M. Anna Wood, of Wellesley Col-lege, has measured 1,100 women betweenthe ages of 19 and 21 years. Her meas-urements make the height of the aver-age American woman to be 63 inches,waist inches; percentage of waist toheight 39. The Telugu women of India, as I aminformed by Miss Cummings, who kindlymade a large number of measurementsfor me, sustain the skirt, which formsalmost their only clothing, by means ofa cord tied around the waist and drawnas tightly as possible. This is doubtlessthe reason for the small waists of thesewomen as compared with those of thewomen of other savage or semi-civilizedtribes. English working women doubtless oftendo themselves great harm by wearingmany heavy skirts attached to waist-bands. I once found a young Englishwoman engaged in the very laborious oc-cupation of making brick, kneading theclay with her fist as a baker kneads dough,and beating it into the moulds with herfist, who was at the same time carrying Expiration. ? Fig. I. Pneographic tracing of a healthy Insp.
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