Thus--to limit the discussion to the weather states which are influenced by smoke--school misdemeanors were increased on fair and dry days, on days with high winds (an increase of 200% in Denver), and days with low humidities (increase of 200% in Denver between 10° and 30°; and 33% in New York City between 50° and 55°). Assaults were likewise increased on clear days. The records of suicide and attempted suicide during a period of 5 years in New York City indicated that suicides were 31% more frequent on dry than on wet days; 21% more frequent on clear than cloudy days (another investigation gave an increase of 1700% on clear and dry days, while an article in the Popular Science Monthly states that the excesses were on days of high humidity), and less frequent on rainy days. The traditional view is that most suicides occur on cloudy and not on clear days. Villemair claimed that nine-tenths of all suicides took place on rainy and cloudy days, while Dickens, Lytton and Pope stage their tragic climaxes on cloudy days. Statistical evidence does not support these popular notions. Likewise clear, and particularly excessively dry days, increased the number of arrests for inebriety, although in the article in the International Journal of Ethics it is said that humidity increases drunkenness. On the other hand, school misdemeanors were reduced on humid, rainy, snowy and possibly on cloudy days and days with high temperature; while adult assaults, murders and disciplinary cases in penitentiaries and institutions for the insane were also reduced on excessively humid days. On foggy days more bank errors were made in New York City, a finding in harmony with the practice adopted by the Bank of England of requiring clerks to work at less intricate and less important problems on foggy and depressing days.