Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — Increase of Crime in Hot Weather. [ARTICLE]

Increase of Crime in Hot Weather.

The increase of crimes of violence during a heated term cannot fail to suggest to the student of social science the multiplication of comfortgiving appliances—and notably of fresh water and cooling shade : —as agencies likely to diminish the number of murders and suicides in cities. If poor people could find more comfort at home they would not flock together into places in which bad drink, added to the abnormal excitement produced by the high temperature, soon deprives them of caution and urges them to violence.