MEASUEEMENTS OF ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY 
CRIMINALS. 
/ By G. B. GRIFFITHS, M.R.O.S., L.R.O.P., Dy. Medical Officer, 
H.M. Prison Service. 
WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
By H. B. DONKIN, M.D., F.R.C.P., One of H.M. Prison Commissioners and 
Directors of Convict Prisons. 
These Tables are intended only as an indication of the method of certain 
anthropometrical observations which are now being carried out by the good-will of 
the Medical Officers of the English Convict Prisons. No conclusion from such 
a small number of cases is, of course, to be attempted. The whole scheme, of 
which these notes are but a sample instalment, has for its object the collection 
of large numbers of observations, anthropometrical and otherwise, on criminals 
undergoing sentences of three years and upwards, without any selection whatever. 
It is hoped that in the course of time such results will be attained, as may 
possibly throw some light on criminological questions which have been raised, and 
sometimes prematurely solved, by various writers. 
The present preliminary observations were made by Dr Griffiths at Parkhurst 
Prison according to forms decided on in consultation with Dr Smalley, the Medical 
Inspector of Prisons, and myself It is to be noted that they differ from those 
which will be made in future in that a certain selection of cases has been made, 
the larger scheme not having been completely formulated at the time. 
H. B. DONKIN. 
Method of Measurement. 
The person to be measured is seated and looking directly to his front, the head 
being in the " Horizontal Position," i.e. so that a pen placed clerkwise over the ear 
will join the external angle of the eye and the topmost junction of the external 
ear and head. 
