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G. H. KNIBBS. 



Rates of all Suicides per Million Inhabitants for Various 

 Countries. l 





PERIOD. 



COUNTRY. 



1871 



1876 



1881 



| 1886 



1891 



1896 



1901 



1906 





to 



to 



to 



to 



to 



to 



to 



to 





1875 



1880 



1885 



| 1890 



1895 



1900 



1905 



1910 



Bosnia and 



















Herzegovina 









6 



19 



37 



40 





Ireland ... 



18 



18 



22 



24 



29 



29 



33 



34e 



Italy 



35 



41 



49 



50 



57 



63 



63 





Scotland... 



33 



47 



53 



58 



60 



60 



60 



57e 



Finland 



29 



33 



39 



40 



48 



47 



55 





Servia 







38 



37 



36 



40 



51 





Netherlands 



36 



44 



53 



56 



61 



55 



64 





Norway ... 



75 



72 



67 



67 



65 



55 



64 





Eoumania 









42 



55 



70 







England and 



















Wales 



66 



74 



75 



79 



89 



89 



103 



102/ 



Australia 



100-9 



106-3 



97-3 



116-1 



119-0 



1237 



1245 



1162^ 



Belgium 



70 



94 



107 



119 



129 



119 



124 





Sweden ... 



SI 



92 



97 



118 



144 



119a 



124 





Austria ... 



106 



162 



162 



160 



159 



158 



173 





Hungary^ingdom 







84 



1026 



123c 



163 



176 



I79e 



Hungary, proper 





76d 



89 



108& 



132c 



177 



191 



192e 



Japan 





llOd 



146 



159 



179 



185 



201 



189e 



German Empire 







211 



205 



211 



202 



212 





Denmark 



243 



267 



248 



261 



250 



221 



227 



194/ 



France ... 



144 



168 



194 



216 



241 



232 



228 





Switzerland 





227 



233 



221 



222 



222 



232 



227/ 



General result ... 



112 



122 



133 



139 



151 



152 



160 



158? 



a This sudden decrease is due to the fact that cases of death by poisons 

 self -administered for purposes of abortion have been excluded. 



b For 1886-7. c For 1892-5. d For 1878-80. e For 1906-08. / For 

 1906-09. g For 1906-10. 



It is perhaps remarkable that the rate for Australia 

 should exceed that for England and Wales, and greatly 

 exceed that for the United Kingdom taken as a whole ; and, 

 seeing that the race element is identical, since Australia 

 is almost wholly British, the fact would seem to be worthy 

 of investigation. 



From 1881 to the present time (1910), the countries 

 whose suicide rates most closely approximate to that for 

 Australia, are Sweden and Belgium. 



See Statistik und Gesellschaf tslehre. Prof G. v. Mayr, Bd. m, p. 279. 



