The Physical State of the British Working Class, 1870-1914:  Evidence from Army Recruits

Floud, Roderick; Wachter, Kenneth W.; Gregory, Annabel

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“…The succession of cohorts born between c.181O and c.18110 appears to have experienced a fairly rapid upward shift in growth schedules, so that the c.1840 cohort was about three centimeters taller at maturity than the c.1810 cohort. Thereafter, the upward shift in growth schedules slowed down so that cohorts born half a century later were only about a centimeter taller at maturity than their c.18140 counterparts (Sokoloff and Villaflor 1982;Floud and Wachter 1982;Floud and Wachter 1983;Floud 1983a;Floud 1983b).…”

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“…Since we have published several papers dealing with the techniques developed for coping with these problems (Trussell and Bloom 1979;Wachter 1981;Wachter and Trussell 1982;Fogel eta].. 1982;Floud 1983a;Fogel etal. 1983;Floud and Wachter 1983;Trussell and Wachter 198L4), I will not attempt to describe them here but merely state that both simulation techniques and practical experience have demonstrated the effectiveness of the procedures.…”

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Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Additional Preliminary Findings

Fogel¹

1986

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Section: Much Of Our Work On the Height Data Between 1977 And 1982 Dementioning

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Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Additional Preliminary Findings

Fogel¹

1986

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“…Reference should be made here to the work of Floud et al (1985) on the heights of army recruits, using the quantile bend estimator described by Wachter and Trussell (1982). A comparison of the results obtained by the two methods is to be undertaken by the author and Professor Floud.…”

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100 Years of Heights and Weights

Rosenbaum¹

1988

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics

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SUMMARY Height and weight data for Great Britain exist back to 1883 (Report of the Anthropometric Committee of the British Association) and even before. These have been reviewed up to the present date: in particular, a long series for army recruits has been analysed, helping considerably in establishing a trend, and recent surveys have established a secure base for future comparisons at national level. But many other sets of data fit the general pattern of increasing heights and weights over the past century at all ages. Quetelet's index w/h2 is recommended as a good indicator of ‘weight for height’ in adult populations; for children it is still at the descriptive stage. A method is suggested for calculating the index and its limits when the complete distribution of heights and weights is unknown, as in many historical series. Finally, class differences are investigated and appear to have narrowed over a century.

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“…Amnesty records, white southern males Bloom, 1979, Wachter 1981;Wachter and Trussell, 1982;Fogel etal, 1982;Floud, l983a;Fogel etj, 1983;Floud and Wachter, 1983;Trussell and Wachter, 1984), I will not attempt to describe them here but merely state that both simulation techniques and practical experience have demonstrated the effectiveness of the procedures.…”

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“…counterparts (Sokoloff and Villaflor, 1982;Floud and Wachter, 1982;Floud and Wachter, 1983;Floud, 1983a;Floud, l983b).…”

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Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings

Fogel

1984

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This paper uses the data in the NBER/CPE pilot sample of genealogies to create a new time series on life expectation in the U.S. since 1720. After attaining remarkably high levels toward the end of the eighteenth century, life expectation as measured by ê began a decline that lasted about 80 years before beginning the new rise with which we have long been familiar. Second, time series on the average adult stature of national populations in North America and Europe are used as a measure of nutritional status. The properties of this measure in the analysis of labor welfare and an explanation for the high correlation between stature and the Cmi ratio are discussed. The time series on stature is strongly correlated with the series on and other measures of mortality. Third, these correlations are used to estimate the contributionof improvements in nutritional status (not diet alone but diet net of prior claims) to the decline in mortality in Europe and America since 1800. Improvements in nutritional status may have accounted for as ifiuch as four tenths of the decline in mortality rates, but nearly all of this effect was concentrated in the reduction of infant mortality. The new findings are used to resolve several paradoxes and the implication of the findings for the standard-ofliving controversy are considered.

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The Physical State of the British Working Class, 1870-1914: Evidence from Army Recruits

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Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Additional Preliminary Findings

Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Additional Preliminary Findings

100 Years of Heights and Weights

Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings

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