SUICIDES OF SOLDIERS
INQUIRY AS TO CAUSES. (Per Unite** Psesr Association-.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 16. Sir James Allen wrote as follows, under date 14th iiist., to tho secretary of a Christchurch union:—"ln reply to your letter of March 31, I have had inquiries made in reg-ard to suicides of soldiers, and have had tho inquest proceedings searched with a view to ascertaining tho causes. Out of nino 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 derangement. In the four remaining cases there was nothing in tho evidence to indicate the reason for the act."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16980, 17 April 1917, Page 2
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