AN AWFUL RECORD by The (N. Y.) Christian Advocate

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Mar 20, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 12.

AN AWFUL RECORD.

By The (N. Y.) Christian Advocate

IN England, suicides have increased by 200 per cent. in fifty years, and by 150 per cent. in twenty-five years. In twenty years there have been more than 50,000 in England and Wales. Other countries are worse off. According to statistics recently published by the Swiss Government, there have been 16,640 suicides in little Switzerland, 323,600 in Germany, and 274,000 in France. The authority, the Social Gazette, of England, states that in America the number is about 3,000 annually and is increasing. No figures of increase of population accompany these statistics. The population of the United Kingdom in 1851 was 27,534,000, and in 1901 it was 41,458,721. This shows 50 per cent. increase. In 1881 the population was 35,003,000, and in 1905 was 43,217,687. This shows 23 per cent. increase. We think that the number of suicides in America must have been more than 3,000 annually.—The (N. Y.) Christian Advocate.