Heights and Weights of New York City Children 14 to 16 Years of Age

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Excerpt from Heights and Weights of New York City Children 14 to 16 Years of Age: A Study of Measurements of Boys and Girls Granted Employment Certificates The New York State Labor Law provides that no child between the ages of 14 and 16 shall be employed in a factory or in a mercantile or other specified establishment, unless he or she is in possession of an employment certificate. As a condition for granting this certificate, the law requires that the child shall have completed the work prescribed for the first six years of the elementary schools, and that in the opinion of the issuing officer the child shall have reached the normal development for his age. He must be in sound health, as determined by a thorough medical examination, and must be physically able to perform the work he intends to do. As the law in no way controls the nature of the work which the child may be called upon to do, except by prohibiting his employment in dangerous trades, it can readily be seen that the only construction of this law which will adequately protect the child is to determine his physical fitness for any work in which he may lawfully engage. This investigation has concerned itself in part with the determination of certain norms of physical development which may serve as a guide to those upon whom devolves the duty of issuing employment certificates. Height and weight are obviously important factors in the examination to determine physical fitness, but emphatically so in the decision of the medical officer as to the normal development of each applicant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.