SUICIDE IN AUSTRALIA: A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FACTS. 233 



In order to compare the significance of this ratio with 

 the ratio in other parts of the civilised world, the following 

 results, compiled from the statistics of other countries, 

 are furnished. These give the crude ratios, viz., the 

 number of male suicides divided by the number of female 

 suicides. 



Table shewing Crude Ratio of Male to Female Suicides in various 



Countries. 



Country. 



Period. 



Ratio. 



Country. 



Period. 



Eatio. 



Japan ... 



1881 - 1905 



1-65 



Prussia 



1881-1905 



380 



Servia 



1881 - 1905 



2-06 



German 







Scotland 



1881 - 1905 



252 



Empire ... 



1881 - 1905 



3 85 



Koumania 



189 L -1900 



2-68 



Norway 



1881 - 1905 



3-85 



Bulgaria 



1896 - 1905 



2-96 



Sweden 



1881-1905 



391 



England and 







Netherlands . . . 



1881 - 1905 



4-05 



Wales ... 



1881 - 1905 



2 98 



Italy 



1881 - 1905 



405 



Scotland 



1896 - 1905 



3-00 



Spain... 



1881-1905 



4-22 



Ireland 



1881 - 1905 



3-00 



Finland 



1881 - 1905 



4-31 



Russia ... 



1881 - 1890 



338 



Sweden 



1901 - 1905 



4-59 



France 



1881-1905 



3-55 



Belgium 



1881 - 1905 



4-93 



Austria 



1881 - 1905 



3-58 



Australia 



1881-1905 



4-95 



Denmark 



1881 - 1905 



362 



Switzerland - 



1881-1905 



522 



India etc., 1907. 



Countty. 



Burmah 



Central Provinces 



Bombay 



Punjab 



Madras... 



Katio. 



1-16 

 1-00 

 092 

 079 

 0-74 



Country. 



East Bengal and Assam 



Eastern Territory ... 



Bengal 



North West Provinces 



Agra and Oudh 



Ratio . 



067 

 0-59 

 0-57 

 055 

 0-34 



The lower figures in the above table are for India and Burmah, where gener- 

 ally there are more female than male suicides. This fact punctuates the great 

 difference between the social condition in the two civilisations. 



Since the relative number of males and females differs in 

 each country, the crude rates are not quite satisfactory. 

 Results are comparable only when these relative numbers 

 are identical. The most satisfactory method is to deduce 

 separately the rate for males and that for females (say the 

 number per million in each case). Then the one rate (for 

 males) divided by the other (for females) gives a relation 

 independent of the masculinity. This has been called the 

 corrected frequency relation. 



