Show i Ua Daily Health S Service I t i Coeds Coed Today Healthier Than Titan Those 30 Years 1 Ago go By Dy DR MORRIS FISHBEIN I. I Editor Journal of or the American Medical Ned Med Med Med-I lea ical Association antI and of Hygeia Hy- Hy geia gela ela the Health Magazine The point has been made repeatedly repeatedly repeat repent edly that the application Uon of modern rules of or h hygiene and healthful living ought to produce a a. better type of human being ph physically than existed In the thc past In 1915 E E. E EJacobs Jacobs began a t study tudy of or the available a le data regarding freshman freshman freshman fresh fresh- man girls in colleges He selected this t type Pe because accurate data were available a concerning them since they arc are examined at the time of their entrance Into school They are of or an age in most instances when they have not yet et begun to use to tobacco tobacco to- to bacco and alcohol The only physical training they have had Is such as they get in high school and thc they do not the cf- cf re fets ts of venereal venere-al disease ase or childbirth childbirth child child- birth He took the records of five i c colleges drawing students from all allover allover over o the country In some SOnIC of the colleges colleges colleges col col- col- col leges the available records go back backas as far as 1881 The total number of oC girls studied was and the years covered were from 1882 to 1915 In 1930 another study was made of or the freshman girls from Crom the same lye five ye institutions The points par par- noted were age weIght height lung capacity gi- gi girth of th the patient and vital index The figures show definite pi progress ogress in the Dim phy cal quality o of or the material concerns If It the thc nine forty years of or gallons are arc divided dl Into three throe period of little over fifteen years each the figures show that freshman girls in the tho first period were on the hc average Crage years ears of or in the age second Cond DC pC p. nod 6 and hi in the thc third peni period 18 la The weight of the girls sirls on the aver age in hi the thc first period was ins 1138 pounds the second l period 1189 9 and the third 1232 pounds Their height for Cor the first period was 1595 1505 cent centi meters the second period 1606 the third period 1616 The lung ca ca Increased ed from 1506 to 1607 and to 1656 The girth of the pa patient ca- ca tient from to and the third group has also a girth of or the vital index inde increased from Crom to These Thee studies cate that the tile girls entering cOlleges college toda today arc are taller heavier somewhat younger and in general of better physical vigor Igor than the girls of thirty and and of fort forty five forty c years ears ago This j is 13 probably due to better health condi condU in homes and to the thc applies applies- tion of better methods of ot hygiene and more healthful living hlf |