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Show j Criminals in Belgium I Inclined to Ba Tall ; Antwerp, Belgium. In the criminal ! population of Belgium the proportion 1 of tall persons Is much higher than : It Is among recruits, representing presumably pre-sumably the average of the male pop- ; uiation. Doctor Vervaecb, a Belgian psychologist and authority on criminology, crimi-nology, made this discovery after a comparison of the measurements of about 25,000 Individuals. The Belgians are a short but broad race. Their average height is about ' 5 feet 6 Inches. Doctor Vervaecl; i classified the recruits and criminals j Into four groups the shorts, between j 5 feet 1 Inch and 5 feet 3; the mid- J dies, from 5 feet 3 to 5 feet 7 inches ; ' the tails, from 5 feet 7 to 5 feet 10 Inches, and the superior tails, 5 feet 11 inches and over. The shorts Included In-cluded 13.5 per cent of the recruits and only 11.6 per ceilt of the criminals. crimi-nals. The middles Included G3.5 per cent af the recruits and only 55.9 per cent of the criminals. In both tall groups proportions of criminals are in excess, the talis having 22.1 per cent recruits and 30.6 per cent criminals, crim-inals, while the very tails include only 0.0 per cent of recruits and 1.9 per cent of the criminals. |