New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-11

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Here the expelled journalist picked up his, rusty
tehcl and sombreTo, and started lor the OolleRc
Place Hotel, where he wall stay
SUICIDES FOR THREE MONTHS.
OVER 400 IN THE UNITED STATES IN MARCH,
APRIL AND NAY.
The Insurance CLropicls which makes a spfecialty
of compiling statistics or suicides IN the UhltIi
states. published a table Yesterday showing lh9
number Of suicides during March, APni ana ana
May. The whole number TerorttGod LOT r Inii
i% March 135 in hptl, and 1919 in
Nav. This is a slight increase over last year ne
greatest numbers al specific ages were 10 az IoIS
g>sicrcd TO business trouble. 10 10 chaCln AZ pa
rental discipline ." 10 dcSltj'lon, ~ To- dlsSis-
zion 81 10 family trouble II TO grc - 70 insanity
q 80 love trouble. 81 to slckneSs ana 10 to pulh.
mrnt undergone or hrC&lcpcd. IN" cor Accnolhs
10 condition was n follows; MUGS. - p"nne. ol
1?9: husbands, los wives, 80; widows y; WE +
DIVERS / I divorced men. & divorced women, ;.
shooting was the method chosen by 100; poin,4nlhS
ly %, hanging by rs, cutting the throat ~ z ana
drowning by J.. In point Of uatlolalty the Amer,
ic,ns led With 22l e. Germans following with 81
AID the English with -. The remainder
were scattered yamong seVeltfen farmers, "oiCl
43 merchants. p day laborcrs, IL
CLERKS and nine spectators I'm the list. TIE remain
der were tered among sixty other occup% IONS
The usual proportion of three or -FOUR SulcioSs
among men TO one among women Was IcIt'truu'
Inc record as 70 sex was milc9 81 ieuaIe3 20
Ohio led IN he roll of states with ~, PennS[IV3-
mia followed with =. Illinois with -, Now orIS
with 81 aud Missouri with % TWO hundred ana
eighty suicides were committed 10y daVn?hl anu
LAB at night In ton ca cs re crime OF SUICIDE WAS
connected with that OF murder re =.
In treating suicide claims the customs OF ne III
s,,rorce co,npauies vary. Some retu the reserves
ttti Ia fsIs d
premiums paid with legal interest some pay VIII
ont contest quest ION after the policy mas heeil III
force a certain length OF timc-uSualY three years
and some treat suicide claims the same as othcr
claims, apparently regarding the TACT OF bulcte as
prna facic evidence OF insanity, ana make no CON
test unless the purpose OF the suicide was PLAINLY
fraudulent.
DPINkIVG WATER AND CHOLERA GERMS.
rur runIUNArE DISCOVERY or IMPURE WELLS
ANIXrtE1's OrlToN.
The discovery that iupurc water from wells wos
hciuy u.od I'm The manufacture o. sGda-Uatcr ana
IMMORAL waters la this cliN lStcgaldDd ny iI1 h4'll
of Health as most fortunate ON % ", 1,' b
Kor which would have attended the use Oh Nu'n
water M the event of cholclH making its appear
auco here. Il il believed hat cholera geins are
animated moro RAPIDLY hA mDlnt oi had dlluh-
i}c ,yatcI tI,nn I'm prv other way. I'm the sanitary
bureau yesterday attention wa. called To inc l3l-
ioVihU ttatOucut concerning tN'ltl" p'Iu,N, ny
lingo wilhelm Won Ilenas'u, VINO ~ l'Saiu'u ~
an authority ON cholera;
These lower orcauisu, live u uc air az well ~ when
attached din,rrtt Hu'id tu'.t AUrcF NV 1tA "Vl
tI,h lea. active Iic and tuDr capacity Tor lrrriAe u
much illuminated uuttid, ui fluid, aud iW- WINE iht 'll
ni other siu-tkucct may certainly transport th"lria
il., ui. le. active prNla Of dls 'wlhioh IMAM ~,
rudsiu Witch tlc p0raHlics huN" undergone coh'l"'r
able multiplication
Or Yi.msscu citcs facts noticed during cholera
cn,druics lu England M 1900 aud ~ 1866 to- prove
the correctness of ms ttat.mont In London l9o
mortality from cholera wa. much greater III
di.tricta which were supplied with wafer nom
Inc Thucs az points below the mouths
ot sovcts Tho dissemination Of the d-oasc lu nhc
district OF London IA 1907 wHs traced to "a wei ln
Vro1d.st and w. soon the well wac tillcd NJ thc
,holcra ceased to spread. ! storm ON August 20,
1866 caused wen at MarVto to be contaminated
with sewage and ou the following day four persona
Who drank water from tic we'll were attacked
with Chuora.
Ur cyrus Edson. chief inspector Of the Second
SANITARY Division. SAID yesterday;
Onf nuaysc, have shown that tue water In soycu OF the
wells u.cd by sudA-wat,r manufactures was con'Ahl
mated with sewage to- greater rNlont thdh was lh OF
the wei, iu Iroao st. London, In lSHl The waller o thc
we'll AZ Wargac SnuNI,d 30 lNuU, hnd IL vac h'ccI
famed that M 100000 p4rjb there were ninety lfrr paris
Oi solid shst and seven parts o. organic
The analysis OF wafer from one ~ me wells IN TINS
city showed that u 10000 parts there were l3N "i
s0nds and ~ parts of organic substances. water RON
two other wells Ia The city showed greater degree OF
sewage contamination than was noticed N the water OF
the Mugh1 well.
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