short of this is not enough and should
be reported to the physician. After six months the gain is about a
pound each month. This varies somewhat; possibly during the tenth and
eleventh month the gain is lessened, but by the close of the first
year the baby should have trebled its birth weight.

Dr. Griffith gives us the following very interesting bit of
information concerning the weight of boys and girls after the first
year, and to him also belongs the credit for the accompanying table
showing the growth, height, and weight of the child up to sixteen
years of age.

After the first year we notice that, taking it all together,
there is a gradual increase in the number of pounds and a
decrease in the number of inches added yearly, four inches being
gained in both the second and third years, three inches in the
fourth and fifth years, and after this two inches a year. The
gain in weight is four pounds yearly from the age of three to
that of seven years, then five, then six, and then about nine
pounds. It sometimes happens that at about the age of nine in
girls and eleven in boys there is almost a cessation of growth
for a short time. Later, at about twelve years, girls take on a
particularly rapid growth, and decidedly exceed boys of the same
age in weight, and sometimes in height also. At fifteen or
sixteen years the rapidity of growth in girls, both in weight and
height, will be greatly diminished, while boys of this age will
often begin to develop very rapidly, and will soon materially
exceed the other sex in both respects.

TABLE SHOWING GROWTH IN HEIGHT AND WEIGHT

Age. Height. Weight.

Birth 19 inches. 7 lbs. 8 oz.
1 week 7 " 71/2 "

2 weeks 7 " 101/2 " } Gained 1 oz.
3 weeks 8 " 2 " } a day;
1 month 201/2 inches 83/4 " } 7 oz. a week
2 months 21 " 103/4 " }

3 months 22 " 121/4 " } {Gained 3/4 oz. a day;
4 months 23 " 133/4 " } {5-1/2 oz. a week.

5 months 231/2 " 15 " } {Double original weight.
6 months 24 " 161/4 " } {Gained 2/3 oz. a day;
{4-2/3 oz. a week.
{
7 months 241/2 " 171/4