SUICIDE IN AUSTRALIA \ A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FACTS. 243 



Number of Male and Female Suicidis, Australia, 1907 to 1910. 



MALES. 



FEMALES. 



TOTAL. 



Year 



1907 



1908 



1909 



1910 



1907 



1908 



1909 



1910 



1907 



1908 



1909 



1910 



Population in millions 



2-15 



2-18 



2-22 



2*27 



197 



2-01 



2-05 



12-10 



4-12 



4*19 



4-27 



4-37 



Mode of Death. 



























Poison 



57 



88 



70 



79 



32 



35 



54 



34 



89 



123 



124 



113 



Asphyxia 



2 



1 



2 













2 



1 



2 





Hanging or strangu- 



























lation 



71 



68 



67 



72 



12 



15 



9 



10 



83 



83 



76 



82 



Drowning 



37 



31 



24 



42 



19 



14 



19 



19 



56 



45 



43 



61 



Firearms 



129 



143 



138 



134 



3 



7 



6 



6 



132 



153 



144 



140 



Cutting instruments 



61 



51 



74 



79 



5 



6 



5 



13 



66 



60 



79 



92 



Precipitation from a 



























height 



6 



4 



7 



3 



1 



2 







7 



6 



7 



3 



Crushing 



3 



6 



5 



8 



2 



2 



i 





5 



8 



6 



8 



Other modes 



19 



15 



11 



15 



432 



2 

 76 



3 



84 



3 



97 



2 



21 

 461 



18 

 497 



14 

 495 



17 



Total 1 385 



413 



398 



84 



516 



therefore best seen by the number represented by each 

 class in a given aggregate, say 100, 1,000, or 10,000. 



Relative number per 10,000 Suicides of each sex, and of both sexes, 

 dying by particular modes, in Australia during the period 

 1907 to 1910. 



Mode. 



Males. 



Females 



Total. 



Mode. 



Males. 



Females- 



Total. 



Poison 



1806 



4545 



2280 



Cutting etc.... 



1646 



850 



1508 



Asphyxia 



31 





25 



Precipitation 

















from height 



123 



89 



117 



Hanging 



1707 



1349 



1646 



Crushing 



135 



147 



137 



Drowning 



823 



2082 



1041 



Other modes... 



369 



293 



356 



Firearms 



3360 



645 



2890 



(Total) ... 



10,000 



10,000 



10,000 



Thus in Australia poison and drowning are resorted to 

 two and a half times more frequently by women than by 

 men ; suicide by cutting is resorted to twice as often, and 

 shooting five times as often, by men as by women. 



The preceding results may be compared with those of a 

 few other countries. For example : — 



Relative Number of Persons in 1,000 of each Sex resorting to 

 particular Modes of Suicide. 



Country. 



Period. 



Hanging. 



Drowning. 



Shooting. 



Poison. 



Cutting. 



Kussia ... 



1904-1908 



M F 

 573 396 



M F 

 122 312 



M F 

 194 32 



M F 

 52 166 



M F 



? ? 



Japan 



1902-1907 



623 444 



184 430 



24 3 



27 25 



39 27 



Servia ... 



1902-1906 



341 619 



98 71 



415 239 



73 9 



49 53 



Australia 



1907-1910 



171 135 



82 208 



336 64 



181 455 



165 85 



