CHILD SUICIDES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 18

CHILD SUICIDES.

REMARKABLE EPIDEMIC. Tho prevalence cf suicide and attempted suicide of scholars of the Rus.-iian middle schools was the subject) of a piper at ths 'closing sitting of the School of Hygbno Congress in London recently by Professor G. VV. Chlopin, professor of hygiene nt tho St. Petersburg Women's Medical Institute. The professm mnarkod th'ir. suicide ;imnng school children was a. still unsolved riddle. As «. school disease it might be compared with shortsightedness In school children three times* ns many suicides took place «s among the remaining child population. The chief methods were shooting, then hanging and poison. The chief causes were mental and nervoii3 derangemont. All kinds of Russian schools had been considered, and 337 oas-ea <»f actual suicide and ninety-five cases of att;mpt.d biueidc had been examined. There, has also ba.'n a. remarkable increase in the ninnb?r of suicides emon; school children in Germany. Eecontlv Professor Eulenburg, of Berlin, ths •nainent authoiity on mental diseases stated that he baa truce tl dnrini; thfa last twelve years, 1152 casos of children who have commit led suicide, of whom inure than half have been driven to this act by failure to pass examinations and by overwork at school.