Ten Suicides a Week.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 10, 9 March 1910, Page 2

Ten Suicides a Week.

Vienna continues to maintain its unenviably black record in the matter of suicides. No less than 520, an average of just ten a week, were reported in 1909. This is an increase of thirty-five over the record for 1908. In more than one-fourth of the eases the motive for suicide could not be ascertained. Among the known causes, love affairs were most prominent, and these were followed by sickness, family quarrels, poverty, mental diseases, weariness of life, material circumstances other than poverty, and grief at the death of relatives. Hanging was the most generally adopted method among the suicides, and then came shooting, poisoning. drowning. Three victims—women —set fire to themselves. Tile ages of the victims ranged from an 85-year-old woman and an old man 82 to three boys of 12, 13 and 14 years respectively.