SUICIDE IN AUSTRALIA '. A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FACTS. 239 



amounts), and all results from July to December inclusive, 

 have to be decreased in increasing amounts, the correction 

 depending on the rate of growth of the population. In 

 this way we obtain the following absolute and relative 

 results, viz.: — 



Monthly Frequency of Suicide, Australia. 





Numbers per 10,000,000 of Population. 



Numbers per 10,000 Suicides. 



Month. 



N S.W.and 



All States of Australia 



N.S.W.and 



All States of Australia 





Queensl'd. 



] 



900-1910. 



Queensl'd. 



1890-1899. 



PersoDS. 



1900- 191C 



. 





Persons. 



Males 



Females 



Persons 



Males 



Females 



Persons* 



January 



1163 



179-7 



35-7 



110-8 



859 



935 



842 



920 



Feb. 



105-3 



163-6 



421 



105-7 



777 



853 



994 



878 



March 



101-9 



166-1 



366 



1041 



752 



866 



864 



865 



Arjril 



956 



1540 



41-3 



1002 



706 



803 



975 



832 



May 



107-2 



152-0 



352 



962 



792 



792 



831 



799 



June 



100-2 



139-8 



265 



85-7 



740 



729 



625 



712 



July 



95-4 



1476 



32- 1 



922 



704 



769 



758 



766 



August 



122-1 



154-8 



380 



990 



902 



807 



897 



822 



Sept. 



108 



1502 



31-8 



936 



798 



783 



751 



778 



October 



128 4 



169 8 



393 



107-4 



948 



885 



928 



892 



Nov. 



122-7 



162-2 



307 



99-2 



906 



845 



725 



824 



Dec. 



151-2 



1790 



343 



1098 



1116 



903 



810 



912 





1354-3 



1918-8! 



4236 



1203-9 



10000 



10000 



10000 



10000 



* For result for 1890 to 1910 see Table hereinafter. 



It will be seen from the above that while there is a dis- 

 tinct seasonal fluctuation, it is apparently not identical 

 from decade to decade, and from the last three columns 

 that the curve is by no means identical for the sexes. For 

 the purpose of comparison the results for a long series of 

 observations in various European countries are given here- 

 under, and the corresponding results for Australia for 1890 

 to 1910 are also given. These shew in a general way that 

 the seasonal relationship of the maximum frequency is 

 identical in Australia with that of the Northern Hemisphere, 

 the absolute difference between approximately 6 months. 



For Europe generally the simple mean may be taken to 

 roughly represent the fluctuation of suicide during the year. 

 The Australian figures for the last 21 years are based on 



