Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1900 — ARMY SUICIDES AND HOMICIDES. [ARTICLE]

ARMY SUICIDES AND HOMICIDES.

Found to Be Less During Active Military Operations. The tabulation of the canes of suicidet and homicides which occurred in the ar-' my during the years 1898 and 1899 are compared in the annual report of Surgeon General Sternberg with the case* which occurred during the ten 1888-97. Contrary to the general anticipation it is found that there were among the troops during the last two years relatively fewer homicides than during the years of the previous decade, and that the mean annual ratio of suicides per thousand men was about two and onehalf times greater during the decade of peaceful garrison life than during the recent period of active military service.