eworthy that in most particulars, and especially in
regard to head measurements, the variations were much greater
among the prostitutes than among the other women examined; this
is to some extent, though not entirely, to be accounted for by
the slightly greater number of the former.

Ardu (in the same number of the _Archivio_) gave the result of
observations (undertaken at Lombroso's suggestion) as to the
frequency of abnormalities among prostitutes. The subjects were
seventy-four in number and belonged to Professor Giovannini's
_Clinica Sifilopatica_ at Turin. The abnormalities investigated
were virile distribution of hair on pubes, chest, and limbs,
hypertrichosis on forehead, left-handedness, atrophy of nipple,
and tattooing (which was only found once). Combining Ardu's
observations with another series of observations on fifty-five
prostitutes examined by Lombroso, it is found that virile
disposition of hair is found in fifteen per cent. as against six
per cent. in normal women; some degree of hypertrichosis in
eighteen per cent.; left-handedness in eleven per cent. (but in
normal women as high as twelve per cent. according to Gallia);
and atrophy of nipple in twelve per cent.

Giuffrida-Ruggeri, again (_Atti della, Societa Romana di
Antropologia_, 1897, p. 216), on examining eighty-two prostitutes
found anomalies in the following order of decreasing frequency:
tendency of eyebrows to meet, lack of cranial symmetry,
depression at root of nose, defective development of calves,
hypertrichosis and other anomalies of hair, adherent or absent
lobule, prominent zigoma, prominent forehead or frontal bones,
bad implantation of teeth, Darwinian tubercle of ear, thin
vertical lips. These signs are separately of little or no
importance, though together not without significance as an
indication of general anomaly.

More recently Ascarilla, in an elaborate study (_Archivio di
Psichiatria_, 1906, fasc. VI, p. 812) of the finger prints of
prostitutes, comes to the conclusion that even in this respect
prostitutes tend to form a class showing morphological
inferiority to normal women. The patterns tend to show unusual
simplicity and uniformity, and the significance of this is
indicated by the fact that a similar uniformity is shown by the
finger prints of the insane and deaf-mutes