Show I WHY WOMEN SUICIDES ARE CONSTANTLY INCREASING I l Medical cal men are deeply Interested In ina a list of cs just compiled and suicidal tendencies The he figures show that suicide has bas steadily increased per cent during he the past fifty years and may be considered con con- as a formidable hereditary dis- dis ease ase Another peculiar fact brought out outs Is s that there is a certain season of the year ear when the suicidal tendency asserts itself more strongly than at any other time ime The suicide season is undoubtedly edly May June July ly and August Suicide Sul- Sul ide cide is least prevalent in winter and andin in n December January and d February Jt t teaches eaches its minimum Locality also has haf a great deal deat to do with suicides A coun try where there there- Is plenty of fresh all air 1 trees and grass is as free from suicide as a lying low lying low district hemmed in between between be be- tween taU tall hills Is fertile of It In support of the theory that suicide is a he hereditary disease a a. case is stated where a man killed himself as his father and grandfather had before him In all aU fourteen relatives had predeceased predeceased ceased him by the same means The Increase of ot attempted suicides has been very rapid In recent lecent years During tb the decade from 1876 1816 to 1886 the attempts rose to HI nG-an nG an In Increase in- in crease rease of 36 per cent Between 1886 and 1836 1896 the p percentage Increased 56 per cent During the last twenty five years the increase was per cent Suicide is a malady lady not peculiar to great clUes cities There suicides average per of population In smaller cities and towns with an average population pop pop- illation of the suicides average per In rural districts th the suicides suicides' average per showing showing show show- ing a higher rate In suburbs and small emal towns than in large cities A striking feature Is the Increase o of suicides of women Today 25 per cen cent of the total suicides In England England and and 30 per cent of those in Scotland Scotland are ar furnished by women The proportion is much lower In France where it Is 2 21 per cent and lower in Austria and Switzerland where women account fo for and 14 per cent respectively This Is generally attributed to alcoholic alco alco- holic excess At any rate out of every cases of drunkenness brought before before be be- fore magistrates In those countries n no fewer than thirty are those of women |