Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-10-08
Statistics Of Suicide.
Nashville American.

we're 5S4 suicides reported in the
United States. June furnished 1913,
July 1876 and August l9l, the subjects
ranging in ages from l3 to SO years.
There were at IL years of age, at
IA, at Is, A at l6, 3 at II, 4 at Is, 81
at 10, 7 at 20, 6 at 81, which rate is
maintained until the age of so is
reached, when IL are added to the
list. At4l the number drops off 10
s, AZ to 6, 43 to s, A 7, and at 40
the number runs up to y. AT 80 it
is 10; 81, IL 81, s; SO, I; "a, 6; and
So, 90, which seems to be the critical
period and the turning point. AT the
age of Sc only s are reported; 81, 4;
IS, Il; 50, A, and at GO, l3. From that
point on the number gradually di-
minished until the age of 50 is reach
ed, when only two were reported.
The causes which led the unfortu-
mates TO self-destruction during the
period mentioned are given as fol-
lows:
Business trouble, 30; chagrin at
parental discipline, 7; destitution,
10; dissipation, 43; family trouble,
76; grief, 5; insanity, 1877; love trou-
BILE, IS sickness, Is; undergoing or
threatened with punishment, %.
The total includes 6S maids, los
bachelors, 2l2 husbands, SO wives, q
widows, % widowers, 7 divorced fe-
males and ID divorced males. The
means employed were varied accord
ing to taste, but shooting seems to
have been the favorite method, but
poisoning was by no means unpopu-
lar. The list shows: l blown up
with dynamite; 3 were burned; cut
ting arteries, IL /; cutting throat, 6S;
drowning, 50; hanging, 81; jumping
from heights, 10; jumping from oil
standing in front of railroad trains
III; poisoning, 10S; shooting, 1S6
stabbing, 3, and starving, l. Theil
nationalities were:
African, u; American, 30; Bel
grian, l Bohemian, 5; Canadian, l
Chinese, A; Dane, 3; English, 10
French, 10; German, ia; Irish, II
Italian, 4 Mexican, 3; Norwegian,6
Polish, 2; Portuguese, 8; Scotch, 6
Swede, T.
The occupations showing the great
est number were: Farmers, 81
Merchants, 81 common laborers, l6
commercial travellers, IL ; courtesans
IL; clerks, 10; book-keepers, S. gam
blers, 7; carpenters, 6; tailors, 6; sa
loon keepers, s; shoemakers, 7; spec
ulators, 6 manufacturers, 7; bakers
5; domestics, 5; grocers, 8; mechan
q les, 5; physicians, 5; politicians, 8
, printers, 5; soldiers, 3; sailors, A
machinists, 4 lawyers, 4; laundry
men, 4 jewelers., A; hotel keepers, a
firemen, 4 I; engineers, 4; and barber
brokers, blacksmiths and butchers,
e each.
/. Of the total number Alabama col
q tributed 7; Arkansas, 4 Arizona,
: California, 81; Connecticut, 10; Co
T. orado, g. Delaware, 3; Dakota,
d Florida, 4; Georgia, 7; Illinois, s.
&c Indiana, 81 A.; Iowa, 90; Kansas, L
Kentucky, u; Louisiana, 10; Main
IA; Maryland, Is; Massachusetts, l
ut Michigan, 81 Minnesota, s. Misso
J. ri, 81, Mississippi, 3; Montana,
1t North Carolina, 6; New Hampshil
te 5; Nebraska, A; Nevada, 4; New Je
lie sey, 7; New Mexico, |; New Yorl
80 6S; Ohio, 80; Oregon, A Pennsylva
" ia, 80; Rhode Island, 8; South Car
lima, 5; Tennessee, 10; Texas, 2
Utah Territory, 4 Vermont, 3; vi
h. ginia, 5; West Virginia, 4; Wisco
is sin, IA; Wyoming, l.
as Three hundred and thirty-six d
is stroyed themselves in daylight, a
ia one hundred and twenty-six at mig