18 Anthropological Investigations. 



The table is arranged in such a way that the white males are taken 

 as a standard for the headings, and we proceed from the minimum 

 of percentages to the maximum of same: 



Percentage of Abnormalities of the Different Parts of the Body. 

 Reference to the Total of Abnormalities. 



with 



It appears from the above table that more abnormalities are found 

 in both white and colored children on the parts about the head, in- 

 cluding the face and the mouth, than on all the rest of the body. 

 Abnormalities of the palate, the ear, and particularly those of the 

 male genitals, are the most frequent. 



In but a very few parts of the body is there any decided difference 

 in the percentages of the abnormalities between the two sexes. 

 Atypical forms of the palate are relatively much more frequent in 

 the female than they are in the male, which fact is especially notice- 

 able in the colored children. 



The forehead was found more frequently deformed in the male, 

 both white and colored. The limbs are somewhat more often ab- 

 normal in some respect in the females, again in both white and 

 colored. . The teeth of the colored girls appear to be more regular 

 than those of the colored boys. The face is decidedly more often 

 abnormal in the boys. The bodies of the white girls appear to be 

 in average more free from irregularities than the bodies of the 

 white boys; in the colored children we notice no difference. 



