SUICIDES OF SOLDIERS.
CHRISTCIIURCH, April 16. Sir James Allen wrote as follows, under date 14th inst., to the secretary of a Ohristchurch • union:—"ln 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- duo to private worry, aud ono to mental derangement. In the four xemaining cases there was nothing in the evidence to indicate the reason for the act."
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Otago Witness, Issue 3292, 18 April 1917, Page 37
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