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Show Is 111. I nrll.toonn Ilrtt-rtoraltncf A r nt lino : v.iior bus compiled somo statistics wlm h would seem to Indknto n rnihur alarming physical 'deterioration lu tho Uiitlsh people. Tho llgiircs, based upon tho recruiting and medli at rcpnris of 1 lie army, show, for example, that whllo In 1SS9 the proporllou of men in the army under five feet live Inches In height wna 100' In a tbom-nr.il, tho following year It bad rlten to lis lu a thousand; in JSU1 to 11"; lu IMtS to lie. Tho proportion of nVn measuring less than thlrty-threa thlrty-threa Inches around the chest was, In 1SSD, seventeen lu 1000; In 1MI8 It was twenty-three. In 1871, 1C0.4 per 1000 recruits were under 120 pounds Id weight: In Won tho proportion had Increased In-creased to iiOl per looo. Ilarpsr'i Weekly. |