Suicide 41 35 25 48 52 Executed 1 26 7 6 10 Murdered 6 4 2 5 2 Poisoned 7 7 4 7 4 Found dead 15 6 13 5 5 Drowned 150 36 97 131 149 Burnt 47 53 61 35 36 From famine 1 0 0 1 1 From intoxication 7 3 4 0 1 From suffocation 10 10 5 5 5 _Number of Suicides in London during a Century and a half._ From 1690 to 1699 236 — 1700 — 1709 278 — 1710 — 1719 301 — 1720 — 1729 478 — 1730 — 1739 501 — 1740 — 1749 422 — 1750 — 1759 363 — 1760 — 1769 351 — 1770 — 1779 339 — 1780 — 1789 224 — 1790 — 1799 274 — 1800 — 1809 347 — 1810 — 1819 363 — 1820 — 1829 381 _Suicides in Westminster, from 1812 to 1836._ (Extract from Report of Medical Committee of the Statistical Society of London. April, 1837.) “The first statement to which the Committee will draw the attention of the Council is an account of the number of persons, male and female, who have committed suicide, and upon whom inquests have been held, within the city and liberty of Westminster, in each month, from January, 1812, to December, 1836, procured from Mr. Higg, the deputy coroner of Westminster; with other statements which the Committee had prepared from it. “The Committee deems it right to premise that caution must be used in drawing too general inferences from these statements, on account of the comparatively small number of cases to which they refer. The average annual number of suicides upon which inquests have been held in Westminster does not probably exceed one per cent. of the total number annually committed in Great Britain; hence the number committed in Westminster during twenty-five years, amounting to 656, is only about twenty-five per cent. of the whole number annually committed in Great Britain. “For some conclusions, however, they afford sufficient data, and these the Committee will proceed to notice. “It appears from the following abstract, No. 1, that suicides in Westminster are most prevalent in the three months of June, July, and March; but that the excess is on the part of the males, as the greatest number of female suicides was in January, September, and November. September, August, and October exhibit the smallest number of male and of total suicides; but February, March, and April, the smallest number among females. No. 1. _A Statement of the total number of Suicides of each Sex committed in Westminster in each month during the twenty-five years, from 1812 to 1836; also the per centage proportion of the whole number committed in each month; and the proportion which the number of each sex bears to the other._