Suicides in Prussia

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 25, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 13.

Suicides in Prussia

Suicides in Prussia.—The statistics of the suicides in Prussia for 1906 have just been published. They show that in that twelve months no fewer than 7,298 persons took their own lives, 5,584 being men and 1,714 were women. The various causes given for the suicides were disappointment, physical suffering, nervous disorders, insanity, weakness of intellect, alcoholism, attacks of passion, consequences of immorality, sorrow and despair, guilty consciences and shame at their own actions, anger and quarrels, while in quite a number of cases no cause for the self-murder could be ascertained.