The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-09-19
CAUSES OF SUICIDE
STATISTICS COLLECTED FROM
MANY SOURCES.
Nu~erc1s csass AstFlbUtsbte 70 cnild
less marrlss ss--Rzts High snruna
oevmanie hsatiens-Mezrs o.
seH-cessraetisr

Auloug spf00se saicsdex ~ all
clasNes 4 hms hesa f0aaa thai 1Us
married nra wtiA ghitiren destroyed
their lives s5t naasrlnd nen wsshoat
children a46 wiao@ers wgth. and eet
wide~cFa washaag ehiAaFer.
With respaA to the som~n. Is mar.
fisd ~agsea with. ana rs stshoH.
ehildren eggnn4iitea suicide. white 1915
Ntaoas Sith. aha rs @ita0ut on.
Aprsng. cnmptetesi ne llss
On the face bi things Il wonld Ep
pear that IN ohilaivss MARRIAGES The
number ~ men ealaides IN doubled
aud In wataea tresalszi I.eMstr. sfae
case OF aesnai Insane persons out OF
count IL wgssia atso appear that In
males suicide IA more frequent than
In females
the subject which deaIp with tn.
causes Oae table dealing With s.ssz
cases shows one seventh caused BY
misery. one f~enty .frHt part By Ions
o. fortune. onr forty.thira by gamb-
ling, one niHeseenth by love affairs.
oneninth by domestic Troubles, one
sixtysixth By fahatieism. and by fnil
ed ambition and remoFse enc. seventh
and one tw~asy seventh respectively
The geography OF suicide 10 also %
high interest w-strett Gays the high.
est proportion In Europe IL shown BY
the tiermanie races. sAxons having
the largest rate 81 any country. In
NarU.x fhs. r.fs. ~ss. ..~.g fav~.. fs.~ =
time. TIA decrease icing attributed 10
tho greater restrictions NOW laid on
the liquor sraffie
The Celtic races have how rate.
and this Nv eyineed by the fr.s@s for
ireland aud Wales Mountainous 70
ginns ARE said TO shnw lower rate
than io~laads. III The highlands ~
Scotland and Wales. and In the high
aseas Of sEitsefian1. suicide II rare,
Times sud seasaas also operate aye
parentiy ID Influence the act IL self.
destruction Roughly speaking. he
eaFs. tlne 0E Suicide, calculated
through the ywaF. risss from January
10 Jaly. and decreases fof the SECOND
half OF the wear, Tbs maximum paFs
ODDS have t.een fsnlna 10 saii ia May.
June aud Imiv belseve. indeed. 5ane
IL found to shuw a MARKED predousi.
nance a2 suicide month
one reason for aHch pfeemiaenea IN
thw warm SEASON ~ Ills year IL set
down AZ represented by the ouses ~
bot weather affecting the system and
,anding 70 disturb mental equilibrium
Of the nsihieets In 1885 easas nntsd
IN Paris the prevailing hours 81 aelf,
destruction sure from ain 4 ~ "a
noen ana from tso 10 three b. 10
Perhaps one Of the most eusieas
phases ~ this study IN revealed Ia the
fact already alluded to- namely. that
different countries - stuw prefer
enees for different means ~ conausit
ting suicide from oshef lands rhs
nest enmnioa Eprop~an method Il b
means u haHging, bai ID Italy shis
mode ~ self slsMsracsIoa Ia rare.
Drowning comes nsxt Ia order. and
| twice as many women as nlssa ysrinf
| IN this wsy aarh year In Europe
Shooting u frequent In italy. and
Switzerland Cut throat IL common In
England and Ireland; II does not seem
TO constitute anywhere else ffcaaen,
mode ~ ending life
Poisoning IL specially Anglo Saxon
method ~ suicide. We are told whtic
saffocation by the fumes Of earbontc
acid gas. Inhaled ia ci0s~d Foom. 10
very typical OF suicide In France