1MBBS Student, Department of Forensic Medicine, Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, DMIMS, Wardha
2Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, DMIMS, Wardha
3Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, DMIMS, Wardha
4Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, DMIMS, Wardha
5Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, DMIMS, Wardha
*Corresponding Author: Email: sudhirninave@yahoo.in.
Online published on 15 December, 2018.
The "Bertillonage" system was based on the finding that several measures of physical features, such as the dimensions of bony structures in the body, estimation of stature from these, etc remain fairly constant throughout the adult life. Bertillon concluded that when these measurements were made and recorded systematically, every individual would be identifiable. ‘Bertillonage ’exhibited certain defects and was gradually supplanted by the system of fingerprints and then, by genetics. Bertillon originally measured variables he thought were independent-such as forearm length and leg length.
The present study was conducted on 100 subjects of age group 18yrs-25yrs, both male and female, though not in equal numbers. Only the subjects with heights falling within a certain range were made a part of the study.
The study showed that the Humerous bone length was in the decreasing order as: South>East>North>Central, the forearm length: Central>South>North>East, Hand length: North>East>South>Central, Femur length: East>South>North>Central, Tibial length: South>East>North>Central and Foot length: East>North>South>Central.
Bertillonage system, Stature, Height, Bone Length
