Show a woo 0 3 SUl Gib OF SOL sa 1 c F lacta pacta ctr lauraina laur ardin dina Furo kuropcak Kurop penn can arnil I 1 M tri 0 tt of f M 14 dr lnor r who wh was appointed at th lato atea national medical convention of london to report about the number of suicides among soldiers of various nationalities published the results of his inac investigations from the doctors report based upon the military statistics from 1873 1675 to 1887 it appears that tile the largest number of suicides occurred in the austrian army averaging every year 1120 to every soldiers this does not include forty cases of foiled attempts at suicide and it represents 1 20 40 1 per cent of the general mortality among the austrian soldiers next nest to austria is germany which from 1878 to 1888 averaged sixty three to every soldiers not counting ten cases of unsuccessful attempts attempt sat at self destruction in the ilie italian army from 1874 to 1889 on the average forty soldiers in in every every committed suicide every year the french army from 1872 to 1889 lost in europe twenty nine soldiers to emery every annually and in algeria it lost just twice as many by suicide in belgium there occurred twenty four in england twenty three in russia twenty and in spain fourteen soldiers to every committed suicide in previous years in england the greatest number of suicides occurred among old soldiers but since the condi tiong eions of the service were changed the number mamber of young suicides increased in the army in france italy germany and austria most of the suicides are arc young soldiers in austria especially mostly recruits commit suicide in the in the first few months of their joining the army soldiers serving a term of imprisonment seldom commit self destruction but they commit it mostly when other disciplinary measures are applied to them the red of suicide is among the foot soldiers ers the use of firearms while cavalrymen in most cases use the noose or cut their throats the suicides using firearms for their purpose po e generally shoot themselves in the licad head the native algerians Alge rians form an exception to this rule because disfiguring the head is considered a great sin among the arabs they direct the ball to the heart in the summer season suicide by drowning occurs very often among 0 tile the soldiers the cause of suicide in the army is in most cases fear of punishment but in the austrian aud and russian armies aversion to the military service or rude treatment provokes many soldiers to self destruction |