The hospital dataset from Guangdong (China) is based on examinations in the hospital of an English Presbyterian Mission in a fishing town south of Swatow. The birth years covered range from 1829 to the 1890s. This institutional context probably provides no major selectivity issues as a wide coverage of illnesses is given (i.e., not only severe ones), and sampling is not restricted to sick patients: healthy hospital interns, employees, patients’ relatives and hospital visitors were also included. Only males older than seventeen have been measured, although further analysis might focus on age groups 20-50 in order to avoid age-specific height biases (Baten and Blum 2012). The measurements were taken in English inches and no occupational data was available. The regional information for all observations is Guangdong, formerly named Kwangtung or Canton Province (on the South China Sea).