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of Individual Conditions," such as sex, age, 

 vocation, profession, and individual status 

 in government and society. Here also, as 



in the former chapter, we are tempted to 

 give results which space forbids. But in 

 regard to sex it may be remarked that, so 



15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 



Fig. 2. Age of Suicides in Italy, Prussia, England, and France. (Curve of the returns per 



1,000 of the actual numbers.) 



profoundly different are the characteristics 

 of the sexes, we might expect a great dif- 

 ference in their proneness to suicide, and 



such is the fact. But the result is different 

 from what we should expect if we accept 

 the statements of reformers, who tell us 



Per Thousand, 



Men 



" ml68.6 



Italy. 



Women 



Men 



France. 



1004 Pet Thousand. 



Women 



U M W 



U M W 



MCMcsWcWcs MCMcsWcWcs 



Fio. 3. Influence of the Civil Status (Italy) and of the Family (France) on the Ten- 

 ded y to Suicide. 17 unmarried, .1/ married, FT widowed ; Me married with children, Mcs 

 married childless, Wc widowed with children, Wcs widowed childless. 



