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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1888)
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As I s-.'C then, stiv.eictl 2d dumb, ! the luul or Ssrevt-To-Corae, Tlir.t -s sin " 1- r ! :!!.. 4m. i 4m.. li-cf ! f -. i lir t ri.--iT.c TliAi.v Ttsllc c- 1 f'f '.:sr ' Uli: Ins: iM-yos ' t c siUt &; Jus: be P .: r.-o'sii-il t'-.col n ei. .: . ;.v.-'ei. .. ; .'. 5. T.n, HISTORY nf SUICIDE. I:; Oecu". Mess in Suramor, and Am nj tho Cultured. Tarro :is JIaiiy Zr:i si Women Talit; Tl.flr Own l.ic Iay tlsa I'a- cr'rt Ti:ir. :i:ul 37iililic.i:;i t!:o 2iu!:ir IVrlo:!. "Any weather."' said Ir. Hani'Iton to a Kciv Yorl: San report or, "ivhicli lowers tho vitality of a ierou strengthens the dis position to commit suiciuc. There is nolh inir very strange about that, old as it seems, to say th.it tho ivcilhur iuilaeiiccs suicide. We all know how common it is to feci blue and low-spirited on dsr.c, muggy days. Tho depression of spirits at such times in the c.isc cf an emotional person ainl emotional people arc the one.? who com mit suicide may give the des-'sivo ami con cluding impuLso to take hi", own life. Of course ibcdci'n. muggy dj;. alone ir. not suf ficient ami itoesrot alouo ;ivc the suicidal impulse; it merely forms tho last str.iin on the camel's bad:. We must su'pos.o that the disposition toward suicide from seme of the great causes is present in farce. "Thoie lnve boon some very iptccr no tions held on this point. It was an old slan der against Englishmen, whic's-lontesquleu quoted. I thin1.:, that Englishmen were more prone to suicide than other people on ac count of the dark, foggy da.v of their coun try's climate. It was a plausible statement, and vru3 yeucntl'y regarded as true until an industrious gatheicrof statistics proved that iu Holland, whore there is much more fog and darkness thaa in l-Iugiand, thero is much loss suicide. So No vember, on account of its gloomy weather baa always borne a bad name as a month of suicides: but statistics gathered fiom all parts of the world show that there arc more suicides in May tlun in November, and that, generally, there are more sui cides in summer than in the winter days. It was proven by data collected for nine yeara in this country, from lfclT t-j lisitV, that thero were averaged 37-t suicides in May to 131 in November, while the greatest number of suicides was found in the months of Juno and July. I believe that data gathered since then still bears those figures out. So, you see that the warm weather has more to tl3 with it than cloudy vcatlier. The No vem'oor days, cloud v as tbey arc. are cold and stimulating, and tho vitality of one's system is uot lowercJ a groat deal in them. "To make a general statement, it is upon a day when tho dark sky and the high tem perature are joined when tho friends of the would-be suicide want to look out for him. The warm, humid, cloudy atmosphere this is what influences suicide in a very appre ciable degree. illaneuvc observed this fact at Fans, and he declared that a- Ion;r as the barometer indicated stormy v.oa Iit this state of things continued. In June, 1S0G, at Rouen, France, over sixty voluntary deaths took place, the air at the time be ing remarkably humid and warm and the days dark; and in July and August of tho same year, during tho prevalence of the same weather, there were more than thrco hundred suicides iu Copenhagen. Denmark. These facts are well known in medical his tory In Italy the effect ujon tho rata of suicide of sustained high temperature, accompanied by a moisture, ha:, long lieca noticed." Some years ago." continued Dr. Hamil ton. "I gave considerable attention to tho subject cf suicide here in New York, both as rcgardr. the joint upca wl.ich we wcro talking ar.i oilier van tea law. I found that the pocpV-v.h- committed suicide, to far as nationality was ccncemed. were mostly Germans. This is but natural, considering the intensely emotional character of tho Gcrnuui people. ClUsscd Ly occupations, .clerks are tceianst suicidal set of paople, .and the reason for thi fact is not very far -off, ithor. The young mon arc atrua-Iiiv for situation ami support, and theyaiocs posed, as are hardly uny other class of peo ,plc, to the pitfalls of the great city. The temptations of vice come to them with great force, and when they have once yielded and become entangled suicide is of!?a tho next thing thought of. "Of modes of suicide, poisoning is b far the favorite, I looked up the subject be tween ltiGtf and 157:2, and I found that of over 600 suicides here in these years 212 wcro suicides by poisoning Tho preference in poisons was for arsenic, and this iu its commonest form, Fans green. Women al most always poison themselves, uneducated women using Paris creen, and educated women chloral or morphine. The frequency with r.'hich Paris grceu is used is due sim ply to the easiness with which it can be ob tained. The laws governing the sale of tho .different kinds of poison arc not stringent .enough. "In London hanging is tho popular form .of suicide, though voluntary starvation used fo be. In France people drown them selves or die from suffocation by inhaling charcoal fumes. It is a singular fact that of the people who shoot themselves seventy five per cent, shoot themselves in the mouth. At least this was the case at the timo I gathered facts about the matter. Suiciding by jump::',' f-om a great height is a horri ble iv ay hitliag one's self, but it is often donc A case.' "( as s;:c:i a stau.'o . near!., beiga! . power-. ' -once a- ACtcr wn ! :.!.i inclined to think that many .. . c' .iracter which arc set down uot intentional suicides, but in- ; .. ..Ii "i the morbid tendency which -v one feels when at a great ' :: r.v one's self dowu, has over- ..!.!.! and the brain. I myself . jorrtolo experience of this char- i stsceudiu:' the 'i. nitaia Corco- vado. rs siarjor ot iii - i'x i. was With .: '' ovo:v.:..o a fearful restl - - and impuko ijihrow myself down - .. i:: bltto sea, tww thousand foot bolow : .o. A fellow pliysiciaa oucc told mo that Sieaad a paUcnt who never dared to sleep or. the third and. fourth floor of a "house Lecatae of hb fear of yielding t aa teCBiotib'. impulse to throw himself out of tl winao.v. "In this great city the crowding of poor j- !' into tenement houses lowers their vi.y u nervous tone, and makes sui cide easy to happen among them. The labor wars, the unsuccessful strikes, the worri m .t nd disasters which trades unions bring theso arc causes of suicide among the poor as pateut, just now, as any that I know. In the upper ranks it is the contin ual speculative scheming, tho hurry and worry and strain of trying to get rich quick ly, that brings on suicide like the night at the close of every business day. The causes which tempt men to commit suicide must bo removed by the statesman and the econo mist rather than by the physician." Another very eminent physician of the city, who did not want the reporter under any circumstances to mentiou his name, said that he agreed entirely with Dr. Ham ilton's statement that hot. "muggy" weather was the weather which suieido claimed as its own. " VilJaneuve. from whom we ?jct a largo share of our information in this particular," tsid the physician. tells us that during tho seven years in which he gathered statistics in i-n-si", hi thoj-priug there wcro lOT sui cides: in the summer, '.Li; in tho autumu. (157. and in tho -winter, OK Vilianeuve also tkv'a-ed that in London, Hamburg, Cop'n h -gen and i'.oucn. the maximum number of suicides oecured in July, and the minimum number in Oc'oLer and November. It has been proven, 1 believe, that on the continent or Europe suicide diminishes with thclatti tnde. the Danes committing suicide the most and the Portugese the least. Tho ihtTcvncu be: ween the prevalence of suiciuo in DvMimnrk and Portugal is as :1 to 1. "People should always kill themselves more iu large towns than in the country, because iu the former places the great fU!!3"s of suicide, poverty and vice, are mos.t abundant. Suicides take place, too, far more among civilized than among bar barous people; among people instmeled and well read more than among the ignorant. Intelligence raises the aspirations of men, and when these aspirations are crushed by the great movements of our commie:: civili zation suicide follows naturally. Quetelct, thc.greatest statistician that over lived, proved that wherever crimes against the person arc rife and ratio cf sukiuo is com paratively small, but that whom crimes against poperty were abundant the ratio of suicide was much higher. These arc singu lar facts, too, that so few suicides talro place in the night time, that thrco times as many men ooiamit suidiJo as women, and that th2 favorito age at which people kill themselves is in middle lire." The theory of the learned doctors received strong ccnlirmaticn by data furnished tho rcport'jr by Dr. John T. Nag'.e, the City's Registrar or Vital Stali-ities. Dr. Nagio told the reporter that while in this city, Gcrmr.m; committed suicidafar more than any other raoa of poaple, the Irish com mute 1 culeide far less. "I believe,'' said the doctor, "tiiat tem perament and tho national characteristics and peculiarities of poopij have a good d?al more to do with suicido than religion or the weather, that is speaking absolutely. It is said that Germans kill themselves here out cf homesickness, but there are as many Irish cople bscau UM"'ii2? "Now, SO people killed themselves here last year, and of these 114 wcro Germans. The numl)cr of suicides, by months was as follows: January, 10; February, IS: March, ii: April. IS; May, 21; June, 13; July, 29; August. 21: September. 10; October. :J0; November, til; December, is. So you sec the greatest numlicr of suicides were in May. July and August, in the hot, murgy," months. Of 1.13 :!r sui.-ide.. !: were men fcnd .- were women. Only one or there 2-V was a colored pci-i.on. It is an ci'cdingiy rare thiii.'." for a colored person to commit suicide. In IS.S1 1 made a comparison f tho suicid-jl statistics for the paU eleven years, and discovered tho almost incredible fact that of 1,.?21 deaths by suicido in this city only three fcf the number were among the colored population. Tho statistic for these eleven years showed a state of things precisely similar to that of last year. Six hundred and twenty-six out of the I,."-1 suicides were Germans. More suicides were committed iu the hot months than iu the cold; rUt people of tho 1,.U1 took poison, and over :JlK) of the Mi took arsenic in the form of Paris green. After poisoning, shooting and hanging were the favorite means of self-murder. The proportion of men and women held curiously the same I, lie) men toltiS women.- "At the same time that 1 dug out these eleven-year statistics 1 scut inquiries to cities all over the world asking for statistic of suicide in the past year 1S5.'). Here is a statement which shows the suicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants in some of the prominent cities. I don't thin!: New York fares very badly." Dr. Nag!c handed the reporter the state ment, as follows: I! t'pr IMi'llrt jO',kg.. Or.f. New Vnr': !.:3 12 Fh.laiiii f.Hi.1 .o3 ! llr.iulcln .ri..V !( llvsii-:: 1 .i'i in y.-.a Fr.c r!f.o :.76 2 li.'.ltiuicr 'i.vi 17 Ij'-ndo!) Hoi. 11 lte:l u '--'.i icrVKi. ... ... u i u Cjp-:iii:. ;-n ""..I 4 lljncva 'i .'it 1 l!a- .'. r -. 4-ts 18 CI-s-tovr -.'. .7 S Kiiiulta :ii .'L05 19 Abcrircii 1.01 SI SioclcIo:i:j li'.'i? H Ii.Us.iO -t S C Kl MJvava v).). V " "J 9 Bit lVI ll tl . a 1 ' ' Iecifciuriie 1U7-J l'l Ca culta f'.'iO 11 "The city which had by far the greatest rate of s;.Ii-iac," continued Dr.Nagle, ' was Gcra, in Germany, which presented the cnormoua rate of ftj.01 per 100,000 inhab itants, or irctty nearly one man in a thou sand. 1 rcLvivcd no infonnatiou to account for this. Neither do I under.-.tand why the rate of suicido iu Sail Fraucivo. in our country, is so large. Tho low rata iu Scot land is remarkable. "Writers have claimed that there havo been epidemics of suicido iu foreign coun tries, hut 1 have never becu able to find any trace of such a thing in this city. A table or tho proportion of the suicidal deaths to the total population of the city bincc 1&C4 shows that the rate rises or falls year by year iu accordance with laws, which wo do not yet understand. Tho highest rate of suicido we have ever had was in 1805, when thero was 1 suicide io every 3,017 inhabitants. This rate gradual ly lowered until 1812, when there wasl suicide iu every 20,a07 inhabitants. Tho very r.ci:t year came a fearful drop to 1 suicide in every t.r07 of the population. Tho lowest proportionate number of sui cides was iu lSt, when there was 1 suicide to iSJ,S27 eoplc. In 1574, right after the great financial au:c. the suicides wcro more in number than at any time for forty years I in every !,ol5 people. Tho O'lo Tiling Nee Jful. Health r l.iu onu V ii:ir needful; there fore no iti.his. '.sjK'iij. solf-uuuial or rs- I straint whlr'.i wos.ibi:iIt for tlio sake of it t is too much. Whether it require. us to r- J linquisb lucrative r.ituiitions. to abstain i from favorite iuilaijonci, to rjiitiMl intemi- I pcrate iasbions. or ;.iiik-r;o tedious regi- ! mens whatever ilii-.'uuics it kiy. :ii usdor aman T.-lio!n;r-...o.j !.:. hsppin-jM ratioa ally and redoijtv:y .vJi b- &iawus t submit to. 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