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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4307, 16 March 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

In Trance the number of suicides has increased in fifty years by more than 200 per cent., while the population has only increased by 18 per cent. In Belgium and a large . part of Germany the rate of suicide has about doubled in the same period; In Denmark the rate has practically stood still. In England and Wales it has increased from 68 per million in the first twenty years of the Queen's reign to 86.5 in the five years preceding her diamond jubilee.. It would be interesting to know whether this increase is due to general degeneracy or to the greater strain of living in these latter years. In. this respect comparative statistics from town and country should lie of value. The velocity of light has recently been determined by M. Perrotin, who gave some particulars of the experiments at a meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences. Fizean's method was adopted, the distance between the two stations being nearly 12 kiloms. The mean result of 1500 observa lions was 299,900 kiloms per second. -