By courtesy of The New York Times
New York's Better Baby
Little Hiss Johanna Wiggers, who won the first prize in New York's Better Babies Contest by scoring 100 points, is the type of little girl that will make the best mothers, and the better race tomorrow. Her score card showed; age, 28 months; weight, 33 lbs. 14 ozs.; height, 35-1/2 inches; circumference of head, 19-1/2 inches: circumference of chest, 20 inches; lateral diameter of chest, 6 inches; diameter of chest from front to back, 4-1/2 inches; length of arm to tip of middle finger, 14-1/2 inches; length of leg to the sole of the foot, 16-1/2 inches; total, 100 points.
The Eugenic Marriage
A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
By W. GRANT HAGUE, M. D.
College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York; Member of County Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association