360 BEAN. 



the country residence of some of the Government's high Filipino officials. 

 The proximity to the town of the hills and mountains is sufficient to 

 attract the hill people, and its situation on the borders of Bay Lake 

 (Laguna de Bay) attracts the fisher folk. It is only a few kilometers 

 from Pasig, the capital of Kizal Province, where a mixed population of 

 Filipinos, Americans, Spaniards and Chinamen reside. The pilgrims to 

 Antipolo, situated in the hills, pass through Taytay,' and one of the most 

 important industries of the place is the transportation by cart and 

 hammock of many thousands of passengers on this pilgrimage during 

 the month of May each year. Finally, the town of Cainta, where a 

 garrison of British soldiers, natives of India, are reported to have been 

 left when the British evacuated Manila one hundred and fifty years 

 ago, is little more than a stone's throw from Taytay, and there has 

 probably been an infUtration of the Indian element into the latter place. 

 The individuals measured were those who came to the dispensary and 

 they should be considered in part as a hospital poprdation, but the major- 

 ity showed no other affliction than infestation with intestinal parasites and 

 many were only friends of the sick who came with them as companions. 

 The resulting components of this randon sample represent more nearly 

 the normal average of the population than if a selected group such as 

 recruits, students or other homogenous bodies of people had been taken. 

 Therefore it may be assumed fairly that the individuals herein pre- 

 sented are typical of the littoral population of the Philippines, although 

 a larger percentage than usual belongs to the hospital population, and 

 the Indian element may exert a small influence. 



I. PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS. 



Topinard(31) classified the races of men by stature as follows: 



Men. Women.. 



Small below 160 cm. below 140 cm. 



Below medium 160-165 (inclusive) 140-153 (inclusive) 



Above medium 1G5-169 (inclusive) 153-157 (inclusive) 



Tall above 170 above 158 



The Taytayans, according to this classification, are on the border line 

 between the small races and the races lielow medium height. The 

 average of 183 adult males is 159.47 centimeters. The minimum is 

 145.7 centimeters and the maximum is 171.0 centimeters. The stature 

 is 5.47 centimeters gi'eater than that of 104 adult male Igorots(3), 

 but the distance between the extremes is not so great. The extremes 

 should be separated more in 183 individuals than in 104, if the compo- 

 sition is the same. However, this is not true of the two groups, Igorots 

 and Ta3'tayans, from which the inference is that the stature of the 

 component elements forming the Igorots was more diverse than that 

 forming the Taytayans. 



