SUICIDE STATISTICS.
From the latest statistics of suicides in great cities it appears that Paris occupies a • very unenviable position. The ratio of suicides for every million of inhabitants averages yearly 402, while in Naples it is only 34. The French capital is thus the saddest as well ns the gayest city in Europe. The ratio for other cities is ns follows: Stockholm, 354 (this high average is quite unaccountable in the northern city, where the pressure of life is not great) ; Copenhagen, 302 ; Vienna, 287 ; Brussels, 271 ; Dresden, 240 ; St Petersburg, 206 ; Florence, 180; Berlin, 170 ; New York, 144; Genoa, 135; Loudon, 87; and Borne, 74. London thus occupies a very advantageous position in the list. Willi regard to New York it is said that the majority of the suicides in that'city are Germans.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1113, 16 November 1883, Page 2
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