Municipal History From Anatomical Records

Abstract

i o n T h e tombs of the ancient dead with their human remains, accessories for future comfort and records vividly por tray the culture of the times.It is almost startling to find that in a few institutions to-day unique catacombs of our contemporaries reflect in precisely similar manner the significant events of our own time.Since 1911, all the cadavera received in the Anatomical Laboratory of West ern Reserve University have been care fully documented by Professor T. W in gate Todd and their records and skeletal remains preserved in the Hamann Mu seum.Late in 1931, this collection in cluded 2,139 individuals, of whom 82 per cent, were males and 18 per cent, fe males.Two thirds of the males and slightly more than half of the females were W hite; the remainder were Ameri can Negroes, with occasional Chinese, Mexicans and Indians.To determine the character of the population sample thus represented, the data from the death certificates and, in many cases, the clinical histories of these individuals