CAMP SUICIDES
ELEVEN CASES IN NEW ZEALAND. (Special to the Times.) WELLINGTON, August 10. “The total number of suicides in New Zealand military camps has been eleven,” said the Minister of Defence in the House to-night. “Three of the suicides occurred in 1916. The matter has been very thoroughly investigated, and it appears that in all military camps suicides are more numerous than in ordinary civilian life.” The Minister added that the military statistics of all countries show that the suicide rate was higher among the military population than among civilians. In England and Wales civilian suicides were at the rate of 1.07 per 10,000, while military suicides were at the rate of 3.79 per 10,000.
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Southland Times, Issue 17734, 11 August 1917, Page 5
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