──────────────┬─────┬─────── MEANS. │Male.│Female. ──────────────┼─────┼─────── Railways │ 2 │ 1 Fire-arms │ 10 │ 0 Cut throat │ 26 │ 4 Cuts and stabs│ 2 │ 0 Hanging │ 44 │ 8 Drowning │ 27 │ 26 Poison │ 11 │ 9 Unstated means│ 9 │ 3 ──────────────┴─────┴─────── _N.B._─These are the latest statistics issued, 1885. REGISTRAR GENERAL’S REPORT for IRELAND for 1882 and 1883. General Death Rate, 1882, was 17·4; 1883 was 19·2. Suicide Rate, 1882, was 20·7; 1883 was 24·7. ──────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────── 1882. │ 1883. ──────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────── There were─ │There were─ │ 141 Homicides. │ 107 Homicides. │ 105 Suicides { Male, 81.│ 124 Suicides { Male, 89. { Female, 24.│ { Female, 35. ──────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────── The MEANS were: ─────────────┬─────────────────────┬───────────────────── │ 1882. │ 1883. MEANS. ├─────────┬───────────┼──────────┬────────── │ Male. │ Female. │ Male. │ Female. ─────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼──────────┼────────── Hanging │ 24 │ 4 │ 19 │ 8 Drowning │ 14 │ 6 │ 17 │ 14 Shooting │ 21 │ 2 │ 20 │ 0 Cutting │ 13 │ 6 │ 25 │ 8 Poison │ 2 │ 4 │ 7 │ 2 Other means │ 7 │ 2 │ 1 │ 3 ─────────────┴─────────┴───────────┴──────────┴─────────── In a Report on the Health of the British Navy for 1883, there are six suicides described, which occurred during the year; 2 were by fire-arms, 1 by hanging, 2 by drowning, and 1 from poison. I add here a table, supplied by the “Lancet,” of the relative proportional use of various means in the countries of Europe. Per 1,000 Suicides. ───────────┬────────┬────────┬──────┬────────┬────────────┬─────── Means. │England.│Prussia.│Italy.│Belgium.│Switzerland.│France. ───────────┼────────┼────────┼──────┼────────┼────────────┼─────── Hanging │ 368 │ 608 │ 167 │ 545 │ 430 │ 450 Drowning │ 208 │ 182 │ 300 │ 228 │ 267 │ 290 Fire-arms │ 46 │ 109 │ 244 │ 118 │ 170 │ 110 Cutting │ 206 │ 54 │ 55 │ 39 │ 67 │ 40 Poison │ 94 │ 30 │ 61 │ 23 │ 33 │ 20 Falling │ 20 │ 9 │ 113 │ 15 │ 11 │ 30 Suffocation│ 30 │ 3 │ 22 │ 4 │ 13 │ 70 ───────────┴────────┴────────┴──────┴────────┴────────────┴─────── Legoyt has calculated the relative proportions of these causes in the two sexes, in Europe as a whole, thus: