Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1916 — 311 VIOLENT DEATHS IN INDIANA IN OCTOBER [ARTICLE]

311 VIOLENT DEATHS IN INDIANA IN OCTOBER

Report For Last Month Presents Startling Figures to Indianians. Indianapolis, Nov. I’4.—The statistics of the board of health gathered for the state of Indiana are sometimes quite startling in certain respects. The last bulletin of the boaid says: 311 Indiana citizens were killed , by one cause and another in October. 254 of these accidental deaths were males and 57 females; 92 committed suicide, 63 males and 24 females. Why so many suicides in Indiana? Surely it is a good state to live in and these suicides present a very serious question. There were 6 deaths from accidental poisoning, 9 by burns, 33 were accidentally drowned, 3 were killed by firearms, 33 by falls; 6 were killed by machines of various kinds; 35 by railroad accidents; 17 by streetcar accidents; 29 by automobile accidents; 3 by motorcycle accidents; 9 were killed by animals; 5 by lightning; in additi<n to the above there we.re9homicides. The remaining number of accidental deaths were by various causes unmentioned above.