THE BASAL METABOLISM OF GIRLS

Abstract

For several years past the authors have been making observations on the basal metabolism of children, chiefly from the University Elementary and High Schools.Data have now accumulated on 46 girls, and approximately the same number of boys.The material on girls is presented in this paper.With most of the subjects duplicate observations were made on two closely consecutive days usually on or near the birthday; with 22 girls the study has been repeated a 2nd year, and with 15, a 3rd, a total of 153 days observations.Many of the girls' result,s collected in 1922 and 1923 were sent to Dr. Francis