Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09
SUICIDES IN FRANCE,
Women Less Inclined to Destroy Their
Lives Than Men.

Lives Than Men.
1t is solely in the criminal statistics
that the doctors and mental physicians
are able to find detailed indications as
TO the circumstances under which sui
cides take place. Unfortunately, the
number of self-murderers in this coun-
try increases from year to year without
interruption. After having been, as
an annual average, 1926 from 1871 to
1875 and 6,25S in 1S76-1SSO, the number
rose to 6,741 in 1881, to 1918 in 1882,
to 1857 in 1888, to 1872 in 1884 to
1902 in 1885. and to 8, 187 in 1886. This
means a rate of 81 suicides for every
100000 inhabitants. The department
of the Seine appears for Is per cent. of
the total, 454, or 40 per 1907 900 in
habitants.
Women have recourse to suicide in a
far less degree than men-1,716 (21 per
cent?, instead of 6,471 GO per cent
and yet the census returns show that
the two sexes are about equally divided
in this country. The frequency of sui
eide increases with the age, as the fol-
NV my bdDlc WILL snow.
Under years of age..... 81 or 5 per cent
10 to 81 years of age. ........ 3a4 or per cent.
u 70 p years of age.-........ 4aS or per cent.
% to 30 years of age.......... 591 or Z per cent
10 40 years OF age 1913 or Il per cent.
AZ TO 80 years of age ......1. AZ or 18 per cent
81 to g years of age. ....1, $50 II per cent.
W years and over. 2. POS or % per cent
1t has been impossible to fix the age
of l15 suicides. Information was in
complete with respect to 2S0 individ-
nails, but the other suicides are classified
as follows: Bachelors, 1886, or 81 per
cent; married, having children, 2, LAC,
or 81 per cent; married. without chill
dHen, 1,2l0, or Is per cent; widowers.
having children, $50, or II per cent.
Widowers, without children, 476, or 6
per cent. AS to the dOmicile of the sui
clde3, Ii has been proved at the inquests,
or IN connection with judicial proceed
in.rS, that 4,2}3. or 80 per cent. lived
IN the country and 1888, or 4S per
cent, in towns: there were 116 cases
in which no particulars are forthcom-
ing. 1t must not be forgotten, how
ever, that the population of the cities
amounts to barely third of the entire
population of France.
The 8, lS7 suicides were of the follow
ing professions: Agriculture, 1921. or
81 per cent. industrial workmen, 1858,
or 70 per cent; shopkeepers and man
ufacturers, 1,030, or IL per cent landed
proprietors, persons of independent
means, or members of the liberal pro-
LESSONS, $50. or II per cent; servants,
Oh, or 6 per cent; without any known
occupation, 679 or per cent.
But the general results of the census
OF 1885 not having yet been published,
1t is impossible to determine in what
proportion each of these classes attains
the average length of life. Suicides
are always more numerous in spring
Gil per cent? and in summer (26 per
cent? than in winter (22 per cent?
and in autumn (21 per cent? AS is
always the case, the greatest number
OF suicides were by hanging-42 per
cent; then follow drowning, % per
cent; deaths by fire arms, ID per cent.
cases OF asphyxia by charcoal, 8 per
cent, cases of voluntary falls from
nigh buildings, per cent. poison, 2
per cent; the employment of sharp
instrument, 2 per cent. and every
other means, 2 per cent.
As to the presumed causes of suicide,
10 Judge from the legal inquiries which
are held, they may be divided into
eight principal groups: Poverty, 10
per cent. family troubles, Is per cent;
disappointment in love. jealousy; etc,
+ per cent; drunkenness, II per cent;
oeSlre to escape judicial inquiries,
per cent physical suffering, Is per
cent; various causes per cent; men,
eal attacks, 2o per cent. 1t is for the |
doctors and mental physicians to draw
conclusions from the foregoing statis-
1lcs and to tell us the true Specification
Oh the above figures relating to suicide. |
Cor. Leeds Mercury.
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