Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — Suicides of Europe. [ARTICLE]

Suicides of Europe.

Germany leads the suicide list of Europe with 2.71 a year out of each

10,000 inhabitants. In the German army, however, the ratio rises to 6.33 out of every 10,000. Austria has only 1.63 suicides out of 10,000 people, while in her army she has twice the suicide death rate of any other European country—l2.s3. The happy inhabitants of sunny Italy seldom commit suicide. Less than one person in every 20.000 Italians dies in this manner. The army of Italy has 4.07 deaths by suicide out of every 10,000. Spain and Russia, both in their armies and in their civil life, have the smallest number of deaths from suicide, so it is not therefore possible to explain these figures by any comparison between the Latin and Slavonic races. *