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Show f Suicide Anions: clilldreii. In a period of sU years 1883 to l8S8 there were no less than 289 :ases of suicide among school children In Prussia, the number for each year ranging from fifty-eight in 1883 to forty in 1885. In eighty-six cases no cause is known; hut eighty cases are attributed to fear of punishment, nineteen nine-teen to disappointed ambition, twenty-eight twenty-eight to insanity and melancholia, sixteen six-teen to fear of examination, five to love, and seven are supposed to have been only partially intentional. Only forty-nine of the 289 suicides were girls. |