WHERE TO LIVE.
The industrious German is fond of collecting statistics of all sorts, and recently devoted himself to some details regarding that cheerful topic—suicide. He found out that only twenty out of every million of tht population of sunny Spain take their own lives (though possibly they make up for this somewhat by killing other people) while in France the number is 2350 per million. Germany has developed her resources and power, with extraordinary rapidity, but her successes have not apparently made the land a more agreeable, one to be alive in, for between 1878 and 1910 suicides in Prussia have risen from 180 per million to 207. The rate in Switzerland is 228, Denmark 220, England 90, Norway 55, and Ireland only 29. It would appear that there are greater inducements to remain alive in backward Spain and in harassed Ireland than in countries in the van of modern progress.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 26, 24 September 1912, Page 4
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152WHERE TO LIVE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 26, 24 September 1912, Page 4
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