Wichita eagle., 1888-07-29
HISTORY OF SUICIDE.
OCCURS MOST ~ HOT WEATHER
AND AMONG THE CULTURED.
Three Times - Many Men n Women
Take Their Own Lives-Day the Favored
SratiSficN


Take Their Own L;ves-Day the Favored
Time. and Middle Age the Period
Statistics.
'-Oh. therc is no dorot about that
The speaker was DR. Allan McI.ane Ha-,iS
ton, New Works famous aiieniss. Tho "a
porter had just asked the doctor whether shs
weather had any influences upon the tendency
OF people 70 commit suicide.
There is no doub. about it az aI.-rr-
reated Or. Hamilton. ANY weather. which
lowers the vitality u person, strengthens
the disposition 70 commit suicide. There =
nothing very strange about that. odd as il
seems, 70 say thst the weather influences sui.
eide We all know how common IL Is 70 feel
blle and lo~ spirited on DARK, InusSy days
TIE depression OF spirits az such times IN ths
c-se OF an emotional pe-son-aai emo
tional people are the ouss who com.
nit Suicide-nay give the decisive ard
co1cludinS impulse 70 take bis own life Or
course the dark, muggy day alone IS nc.
sufficient and does not alone give the suicidal
impulse; IL merely forms the lsst strain on
the canieis back. We must suppose that ere
disposition toward suicide from some OF tas
great causes Is crescent Il fovce
There have bern SOME very queer notions
held on this point 1t was an cd SANDER
against EnsliShmeu. which Mcntesquieu
GU -e,i. think, that Englishnlcn were more
prone 70 suicide than other people On account
OF The dark. foggy DAYS o. their counfrvs
climate. Il was plausible statement, and
was generally regarded rs true until an in
duStriouS Satherer Of statistics proved THAI
in Holland. where there Is much more fo,
and darkness than in England, there Is much
less suicide. So November. on account q its
gloomy weather. has always borne he'd
name as the month Of suicides but statistics
gathered from all parts q the world show
that there are more sui ,idos in Nav than IL,
November, and thar, generally, there a7s
moro suicides in the summer than in the
winter days.
WHAT TIE FTCrErs SAT-.
st was proven by data collected for nine
years II this country. from 1877 70 1Sosi. that
there averaged 81 s1icid in May 10 lSI N
November. while tae greatest number OF
suicides was found in the nlont=s AZ June and
july believe that data gathere,I since
then stiI bear these figures out 50 you sse
that the warm weather tAs more = do with
II than cloudy weather. The November days.
cloGiy - thsv are ara cold snd stimulating.
cred a great deal in them Loss Of vitality
comes with increase 81 temperature.
To make n General statement, il is upoa a
dav when tie n. b slv and the high temper
ature are ,-.5 n the friends Of tire
would b sJiici IL ~Il; - look OUT FOR him.
The warm. huu..j. cloudy atnosphere-this
is 7hat influences suicide a very appreci-
able degree Vnlaneuye observed this fact
4 -
barometer indicated stormy weather this
state OF things continued IN juno, 1900, az
R0ucn. France. over sixty voluntary deaths
took plaocc. the ar NJ tie eine being remark
ably humid ami warm aid the DAYS dark:
and in july ard Angus & tho same year,
during the prevalence Z the same wat ~,
there were more than 800 suicides in Cor.ea-
hagen. Denmark Thee facts are wei known
in medical history Ia Italy the eject uo1a
the rate of suicide Of sustained 3 zh temper
nture. accompanied by a moisture, has loIa..
been noticed
Some Years ago cont uueSl Dr. Han!-l-
ton. Il gave considerable attention tn the
subject Of suicide here IA New YORK both as
regards The point uuou which We were talk
in- and other par.tcuaTs | found that the
people who committed suicide, ~ f1r rs IA
tionalitv vas concerned, were mostly Ger
mans THIS - Tut NATURAL. considering th'
intensely emotional character - tho German
people Chased BY occupations. clerks are
the most suicidal set q -eCpsc. and the RIA
son for this fact IS not very fur of either
TIE young men are struggling for situation
and support, and they are exposed az ars
hardly any other claEs Il p-op.e % thu pit
falls Of the great city The Compilations =
vice come to them with Great force. and
when they have oncc yielded and become en-
tangled. suicide Is Often the aext thing
thought Of.
II TENEMENT HorsEs.
AN this grea. city the eroati1g q poor
people into narrow tenement bous-s loTerg
their vitality and nervous tome, an4 nsket
suicide easy 20 happen among them. Ths
labor wars, the unsuccs>sfui strikes. the wor-
rimeut and disasters TEich trades minors
BRING these are cagses q suicide among "a.
poor rs patent, just now, a. any that know.
In the upper ranks il h thr continual spe-
culatiye srAenl1E The hurry an worry All
strain Of trying 70 Ect rich quickly. tbs.
brings Oh suicide lsko the riRk, az the Gloss
of every bus.Eess day The Gauss which
tempt men q cgulfr-t suicide must be ~
moved bT the sta'~srnaB and the economist
rather than by The paysician~
Another very en- in~nt physician q The
city, who did not ~art tic reporter unisr
auy circumstances 70 mention he uafns
sail that be agreed entirely xi,h Or Halu.l-
tons statement Tia hot, .'rnuggy~ weather
Was the weather Which suicide claimed a IS
own
People should alwsvs XII themselves
more IL large towns than n TIE eos1try, 30
Cause in tee former places the great GAUSS &
suicide poverty ard wee. ars saos- Abfn-
dA1t. Suicides ,sks place. 10, FAR rsors
among CIVILIZED fnan among tar.serrus PEI
pIs. Grnoag people instructed ard vel rad
more than among tie ignorant IntelASsncs
rs!ses Ire ASPIRATIONS ot ussn, ard Wien izs$s
ASPIRATIONS are crushed y lie grsA. move
rrsuts Of our compiler civilization ssir4ds
follows naturally C11etelet, lie gr-atsz.
r.atistl-ian that ever lived. proved that
wherever crimes aGsans- the psrsou 6r- rife
TIE ratio q s1Jci1is - comparatively small,
but that raers crime. s-sias- property vera
abuasiart Tie ratio q rglci1s ~as uecs
Eiger Tnese are singuls, fac1z, Zoo. ;s&s
b few szicalsz take p-zce IA tie alZt. t3f1s.
TIA. three tln1ss - many zen couui. SUI
csde as women. AID ia: tas f2ye-ste age at
which psopls XII the1I-se.vss = Ia l.---4Is
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