SUICIDES OF SOLDIERS
. SOME OF THE CAUSES. - By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christohurch, April 16. The Acting-Prime Minister, the Hon.Sir James Allen, under date April 14, writes as follows to thg secretary of a Christchurch union: "Iα reply to your letter of March 31, I have had inquiries made in regard* to suicides of soldiers, and have'had the inquest proceedings searched with a view to ascertaining the causes. Out of nine suicides which have occurred, two appear to have been due, to alcoholism, one case followed on an epileptic fit, one was. due to private worry,-and one to mental dorangement. In the four remaining cases there was nothing in the evidance to indicate the reason for the act." .
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 17 April 1917, Page 4
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