Show SUICIDE STATISTICS Childless Marriages a Cause Rate High Among Germanic Nations Among suicides of all classes It has been found that married maried men with wih children destroyed their lives married men without chil children chi children dren widowers with wih and 1094 wid widowers widower ower without children With respect to the women forty five married maried women with and 58 without children committed suicide while 04 widows with wih and without offspring completed the list listOn listOn On the face of things says say the Illus Illustrated Ilus London News It would appear appe r that in childless marriages the num number number number ber of ot men suicides is doubled and in hi women trebled Leaving the case cae of oC actual Insane persons out of count It I would also appear that in males suicide is more frequent than in females Equally interesting Is that phase of the subject which deals with the tIle causes One table dealing with wih cases shows caused by misery one part par by loss of ot fortune one by gam gum gambling bling one nineteenth by love affairs by domestic troubles one by fanaticism and by foiled ambition and remorse onese and one respectively respectively The Tho geography of suicide is also of high interest Westcott says s ys the highest highest proportion in Europe Is shown by the Germanic races Saxony Saxon hav hay having havig tug ing ig the largest suicide rate rte of ot any country countr In Norway Noray the rate was very ery large for a i time Its Is decrease decree be being behig lug ing attributed to the greater restrictions lions tons now laid on the liquor traffic The Te Celtic races have a low rate and this is la Is evinced by the tho figures for Ireland and arid Wales Mountainous re ye regions regions gions glons are said to show a lower rate rte than lowlands In Jn the highlands of at Scotland and Wales and In the high areas tens of or Switzerland suicide is rare re Times and seasons also operate ap apparently apparently parenty to influence the tire act ct of self sel destruction Roughly speaking the curve line lne of suicide calculated through the year rises from January to July and decreases for the second halt half haI of the tire year The Tho maximum pe periods nods rods have lave been found to fall In May June and July I believe Indeed June JuneIs Is found to show a marked predominance nance as a suicide month One reason for such preeminence In Inthe Inthe Inthe the warm war season of ot the ti year yea is set as represented by the onset of ot hot weather wether affecting ale the Uia system arid and ad adt tending t to disturb the mental equilibrium of or the subjects In 1993 cases rum noted in Paris Pas the prevailing hours hour of f sel were from 6 a a m to noon and from 21 3 p m Perhaps one of tho the most curious phases of o this study st d Is revealed reveal d In the fact already alluded to namely that different countries appear to show preferences for different means of corn com committing suicide from other lands The most common European method Is by means of hanging but In Italy Ialy this mode of Is rare Drowning comes next in order and twice as many marty maty women ns as men perish in this way each year eat In fn n Europe Shooting is he l frequent In Italy and In Switzerland Cut throat is common in England and Ireland it I does not seem to constitute anywhere else a frequent mode of ending life le lep Poisoning p Is a specially method of suicide we weare are told t ld white while suffocation by b the fumes of ot carbonic acid gas Inhaled in a aci closed room is g very typical of ot f suicide In France |