Milford chronicle., 1888-07-27

suicides was found in the months Of June ana
I July. 1 believe that data gathered since
then still bear these figures out. So You see
I that the warm weather has more to do with
+ II than clondy weather The November davs.
( cloudy as they are, are cold and stimulating
and the vitality Of ones system is not low
cred great deal in thcm. Loss Of vitality
comes with increase of temperature
To make a general statement. it is upon
day when tho dark sky and tho high temper
ature are joined when the friends Of the
would be suicide want to look out FOR him.
The warm. hum 4, cloudy atmosphere-this
is what influences suicide in a very apnreci-
able degree Villaneuve observed this fact
at Paris, and he declared that as long as the
Barometer indicated stormy weather this
state of things continued. In June, 1896. at
ROuen, France, over sixty voluntary deaths
took place. the air at the time being remark
ably humid and warm and the days dark;
and in July and August Of the same year.
during the prevalence Of the same weather,
there were more than 500 suicides ia Copen-
hagen, Denmark. These facts are well known
in medical history. In Italy the effect upon
the rate Of suicide of sustained high temper
ature, accompanied by moisture, has long
been noticed.
ton, Il gave considerable attention to the
subject Of suicide here in New York. both as
regards the point up0n which we were talk
Ing and other particulars I found that the
people who committed suicide, 50 far as ma
tionality was concerned, were mostly Ger
mans This is but natural, considering the
intensely emotional character of the German
people. Chased by occupations, clerks are
the most suicidal set Of people, and the rea-
son for this fact is not very far OF either
Ihe young mea are struggling for situation
and support. and they are exposed as are
hardly any other class Of people to the pit
falls of the great city. The temptations Of
vice come 20 them with great force, and
when they have once yielded and become en- 4
tangled, suicide is often the next thing
thougst Of
IN TENEMENT HOUSES
''ln this great city the crowding of poor
people into narrow tenement hous-s lowers
their vitality and nervous tone, and makes
suicide easy 90 happen among them. The
labor wars, the unsuccessful strikes. the wor-
riment and disasters which trades unions
bring-these are causes of suicide among the |
poor as patent, just now, as any that know. !
In the upper ranks il is the continual sue-
culativc scheming the hurry and worry and |
strain OF trying 10 get rich quickly. that /
brings on suicide like the night at the close /
of every business day The causes which (
tempt men TO commit suicide must be re- /
moved by the statesman and the economist /
rather than by he physician
Another very eminent physician OF the 4
city, who did not want the reporter under
any circumstances to mention his name
said that he agreed entirely with Dr. Hamil-
tons statement that hot, ''muggyn weather
was the weather which suicide claimed as it's
own.
People should always kill themselves
moro in large towns than in the country, be-
cause in the former places the great causes OF
suicide poverty and vice, are most album
aant Suicides take place, too, far more
among civilized en- among barbarous peo-
pie; amo1g pee = instructed and well had
moro than among the ignorant. Intelligence
raises tie aspirations of men, and when these
aspirations are crushed by the great move
monts of our complex civilization suicide
follows naturally. Quetelet, the greatest
itatistician thar ever lived, proved that
wherever crimes against the persog are rife
Inc ratio OF suicide is comp 1ratively small,
but that where crimes against property were
abundant the ratio Of suicide was much
ligher. These are singular facts, too. that
10 few suicides take place in the night time,
hat three times as many men commit sui
;lde as women, and that the favorite age at
which people kill themselves is in middle
ife."-New York Sun.