Anthropometric survey of the inmates of asylums in Scotland.

  • Tocher, J. F. (James Fowler), 1864-1945
Date:
[1905]
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Credit: Anthropometric survey of the inmates of asylums in Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These Tables practically explain themselves. Table I shows the total fre- quency for each cranial character observed, the inmates of asylums being treated as a whole. As an illustration, 301 males had a head height of 136 mm., the total number of male inmates being the sum of the frequencies found for each mm., namely 4436. Tables II to VII are tabulations of the observations with respect to the frequencies of each combination of two characters, i.e. they are correlation tables. For instance, take the two characters head length and head breadth (males) in Table II. The Totals columns give the frequencies for the various sizes of head length and head breadth, just as Table I does, while the figures in the body of the table give the frequencies of the various sizes of length of head for any particular breadth, and vice versa. For example, there were five males with a head length of 174 mm., the sizes and frequencies of head breadth for this group of 5 being 130 mm., one person; 138 mm., two; 141 mm., one ; and 150 mm., one. Where italics occur at the end of the range in these tables, a break in the continuity of the scale is indicated. No persons with intermediate dimensions were observed to occur. Table VIII shows the average value and degree of variability for each of the cranial characters, the whole of the inmates being considered. The degree of variability is expressed by means of the standard deviation which measures the degree of scatter of the sizes, the values given being the various values of or found. The dimensions of the various characters are expressed in millimetres. Table IX shows the pigmentation distribution, both of hair and eyes, of 4235 males and 3708 females (the total numbers observed for hair and eye colour), and also the corresponding percentages for the various colours observed. The table is similar in type to Tables 11-VI I, showing not only the total frequencies for the various hair and eye colours, but also the frequency for each combination. To illustrate again, there were 1372 males out of the total of 4235 who had dark hair. Of the 1372 dark haired persons, 346 had light eyes, 497 had medium coloured eyes, and 529 had dark eyes, and so on with the others. The results for individual asylums are given in subsequent tables.
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