II. FILIPINO TYPES: FOUND IN MALECON MORGUE. 



By Robert BEJSfKETi Bean. 

 (From the Anatomical Laboratory of the Philippine Me<Mcal School, Manila, P. I. 



The bodies of the unclaimed dead in the city of Manila are brought to 

 the Malecon Morgue of the Philippine Medical School where they are 

 retained for forty-eight hours before final disposal. About 100 of such 

 bodies were measured by me during the school year 1907-8, and the 70 

 adults — 48 male and 23 female — so utilized are represented by detailed 

 dimensions in Table V. Two Tagalogs, 2 Chinese and 10 Japanese, all 

 living, who were measured at Baguio in 1908 at the same time that I 

 measured the Benguet Igorots, are also included in this study. 



The Filipinos whose bodies reach the Malecon Morgue usually belong 

 to the suimerged tenth, and should be so considered in any discussion or 

 conclusions. However, they form an integral part of the population of 

 the Philippine Islands, and belong to the series of investigations which 

 I have undertaken of the Filipinos in different culture levels. I have 

 already indicated differences in three culture levels in a study of Filipino 

 Ears, a higher level than the three is given in a study of Filipino Types, 

 I, and in the present study a lower level than the three is presented. The 

 Japanese are probably from the lower middle class, if we may use the 

 ordinary expression, because they are all day laborers — carpenters, etc. — 

 who came to the Philippines after being dismissed from the Japanese 

 army following the war with Eussia. 



The methods of measuring the body are the same as those used for the 

 Benguet Igorots. The head measurements conform to the methods 

 adopted by the commission of the continental (European) anthropo- 

 logical societies in 1906. No conscious selection was made, except that 

 bodies which were distorted by the gas bacillus {Bacillus aerogenes 

 capsidatus Welch) were not measured. 



The brain weight is not exact except in a few instances where I myself 

 did the weighing, because it was taken on untested scales by the morgue 

 attendant; some of the brains are now preserved in the Wistar Institute 

 of Anatomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, District of Columbia, where they may be examined. They 

 should be carefully studied in relation to the types of men from whom 

 derived, which are delineated in detail in the following pages. 



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