It has been clearly established that suicide is less frequent among women than men. In early life, death by hanging is preferred; in middle life, firearms are had recourse to; and in more advanced years, strangulation again becomes the fashionable mode of terminating life. Years of Age. Pistol. Hanging. Between 10 and 20[78] 61 68 28 -- 30 283 51 49 -- 50 182 94 60 -- 70 150 188 80 -- 90 161 256 In an analysis of 525 cases of suicide in Prussia, the following was the result:— Hanging 234 Shooting 163 Drowning 60 Cutting throat 17 Stabbing 20 Jumping out of window 19 Poison 10 Opening artery 2 --- 525 Marriage is to a certain extent a preventive of suicide; it has been satisfactorily established that among the men two-thirds who destroy themselves are bachelors. In M. A. Guerry’s able “Essai sur la Statisque Morale de la France,” published in 1833, we find some valuable statistical facts relating to suicide in France. It appears on evidence of the most authentic description, that, from the year 1827 to that of 1830, there were committed throughout France no less than 6900 suicides! that is to say, an average of nearly 1800 per annum! It should, however, be remembered, that this calculation is founded only upon judicial documents, in which are included merely those cases of suicide in which death has followed, or in which legal proceedings were taken; so that it is not improbable that many more attempts were made to perpetrate this crime of which the public is quite ignorant. Taking up this fact, let us consider that the number of crimes against the person amounts yearly in France to 1900. Now, it appears that more than 600 of these crimes consist of attempts on the lives of others; so that the conclusion cannot be resisted, that every time an individual in France meets with a violent death, in any other way but by accident or mere homicide, there are three chances to one that he has committed suicide. M. Guerry makes a transition to the geographical position of this crime throughout the several arbitrary divisions, and he finds the state of the case to be as follows:— Out of every hundred suicides which take place on the average every year, there are committed in the Suicides. Northern division 51 Southern — 11 Eastern — 16 Western — 13 Central — 9 Another view of the proportion of suicides in France is, that which takes place in the number of them, as compared with the amount of the population. It is as follows:— _Suicides in proportion to Population._