“…Rukstinat (1941) in a large series of post mortems found that 8.79 per cent of males and 0.71 per cent of females were tattooed, and Watkins (1961) says that 65 per cent of U.S. navy men and 25 per cent of army men are tattooed during their period of service. Apart from service men, tattoos are found relatively commonly in criminals, miners, juvenile gang members and persons of low socio‐economic status in general (Edgerton and Dingman 1963).…”