ox AMHROPUMETKIC INVESTIGATION L\ THE BKiTISH ISLES, ood 



E. Trunk and Limbs. 

 Measurements from the G'rojuuJ. 



The subject is to be measured in the erect attitude, with his eyes 

 directed to the horizon, his heels firmly planted, and the balls of the toes 

 in contact with the ground. It is absolutely necessary that the subject 

 should be symmetrically placed so that the mesial plane of the body is in 

 every respect vertical. 



The majority of the measurements can best be taken by means of the 

 Anthropometric AVall- meter, seeing that this ensures a ready means of 

 securing a proper position of the individual under examination. 



All the measurements are to be made after the subject has removed 

 his boots. It has been found that allowing for the height of the heel of 

 the boot introduces serious error. 



1. Strttare. 



2. Height 0/ the ear-hole, 



3. Height 0/ the acromion. 



4. Height of tqyper edge of head of radius. — When the arm is 

 straightened at the elbow-joint a marked depression is seen on the 

 posterior aspect of the outer part of the joint. If the finger be placed 

 in this and moved slightly upwards and downwards the joint interval 

 between the humerus and the radius will be felt. The lower bony margin 

 of this interval is the ujyper edge of the head of the radius, and is the point 

 from which this measurement is to be made. 



5. Height of the tip of the styloid jjrocess of the radius. 



G. Height of the tip of the middle finger. — When this measurement is 

 taken the arm should be held by the side with the palm of the hand 

 resting lightly on the outer side of the thigh. 



7. Height of the iliac crests. — This is to be measured from the iliac 

 tubercle. 



8. Height of the upper edge of the great trochanter. 



9. Height of the knee-joint. — This measurement should be made on 

 both the inner and outer aspects of the joint, and in each case from the 

 corresponding upper edge of the superior extremity of the tibia, or inner 

 of the two bones forming the skeleton of the leg. 



10. Height of the tip of the internal malleolus of the tibia. 



11. Height of the supra-sternal notch. 



12. Height of the iijjper edge of the si/mphysis pnhis. 



13. Height sitting, i.e., the length of the trunk from the vertex of the 

 head to the lowest points of the ischial tuberosities (height from seat). 



1 4. Height kneeling. 



Direct Measurements 



{taken with callipers). 



15. Breadth <f shoulders {bi-acromial). 



16. Maximum breadth of shoidders (bi-deltoid). 



17. Distance between tivo anterior superior spines of iliac bones. 



18. Distance between the tivo i^osterior siiperior spines of iliac boiies. 



19. Distance bettveen iliac tubercles on iliac crests. — This will give 

 approximately the maximum diameter between iliac crests. 



■ 20. Maximum dicimefer h^fwem the two great trochanters of the thigh 

 bodies, 



