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Manila Medical Society and the Philippine Islands Medical Association 

 and a copy thereof to be transmitted to the family of Dr. Clements. 



That this committee include at least one man closely associated with 

 Dr. Clements. 



In accordance with this resolution the president appointed a 

 committee consisting of Professor Haughwout, chairman, and 

 Doctors Long and de los Angeles. 



Dr. de los Angeles then read a very interesting paper on The 

 Medical Aspect of Criminology: Its Bearing on the Philippines. 

 At the conclusion of the reading of this paper the president 

 asked to be excused on account of an urgent call. Doctor Gibson 

 was then requested to preside over the meeting in the absence 

 of the vice-president elect, Doctor Scudder. 



With Doctor Gibson in the chair, the discussion of Doctor 

 de los Angeles' paper was opened, Doctors Gibson, Calderon, 

 Leiva, and Wade, Professor Haughwout, and the author parti- 

 cipating in the discussion. 



Dr. Lamberto Leiva followed with a paper entitled Mosquitoes 

 around Manila and Vicinity — a Health Problem, which was dis- 

 cussed by Doctors Gibson and Wade, and Professor Haughwout. 



The last paper, which was on Endemic Malaria in the Philip- 

 pine Islands as a Military Problem, was read by Professor 

 Haughwout. This paper was discussed by Doctors Gibson, 

 Wade, and de la Paz, Professor Haughwout closing the 

 discussion. 



The meeting adjourned at 11.05 in the evening. 



D. de la Paz, 

 Secretary-Treasurer. 



SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 



THE MEDICAL ASPECT OF CRIMINOLOGY: ITS BEARING 

 ON THE PHILIPPINES 



By Dr. Sixto de los Angeles 



A plan of procedure is presented for the purpose of establish- 

 ing a necessary and fundamental system of study and classifica- 

 tion of criminals in the Philippine Islands by taking into account 

 the influence of the natural factors of crime generally accepted 

 by criminal anthropologists and sociologists. The report in- 

 cludes a study of the cephalic indices by regions between Filipino 

 criminals and noncriminals, and the incidence of the various 

 cranial anomalies among forty-four dead Filipino criminals 



