PATTERN OF GROWTH AMONG RURAL SCHOOL-GOING CHILDREN OF MANIPUR

Patterns of growth in 10 anthropometric measurements among the rural M anipuri children (N=425), aged 5 to 14 years, with poor socio-ecoomic backgrounds are reported. The anthropometric dimension's include weigh t, stature, sitting-height; head, chest and mid-upper-arm circumferenc es, bi-epicondylar widths of humerus and femur, and triceps and biceps skinfolds. A cross all ages, the girls had thicker fat folds. Up to 1 2 years, the children lie approximately on the 10th centile of NCHS in stature and weight. The arm circumference was below the 3rd centile o f the Dutch children, until 11 years. The triceps fat fold fluctuated between. 10th and 25th centiles of US Whites. The rural Meities were t aller and heavier than rural Burmese and urban Meiteis.