April 19 June 17 August 17 July 15 October 14 May 13 March 10 November 9 September 6 January 5 February 5 December 3 The spring appears to have an unfavourable effect; and during the great heats, there are more suicides than during the cold weather. It is curious that many suicides happened on the same day or week. Thus, on April 9th, 1830, there were two suicides, and several others on the previous and subsequent days; on the 20th of May, 1830, there were two suicides; on the 28th and 29th of March, 1831, two; and the same on the 3rd and 4th of July of the same year. On the 20th of April, 1833, there were two; and on the 5th of July, 1833, two others. Some atmospheric changes may account for this, though meteorological tables did not satisfactorily explain them. 7.—_Presumed Motives._ Physical disease 34 Insanity 24 Losses of property 19 Domestic grief 15 Melancholy without known cause 13 Bad conduct. Drunkenness 10 Fear of punishment. Remorse 6 Disappointment in love 6 Gambling 4 Mysterious 2 8.—_Relation of Suicides to Population and to Deaths._ The number of suicides is to the whole number of deaths as 1 to 90-1/8; and to the whole population as 1 to 3·985; the mean population of the canton during the last ten years being 53,000— In 1825 6 Suicides. 1826 6 ” 1827 9 ” 1828 13 ” 1829 13 ” 1830 16 ” 1831 18 ” 1832 12 ” 1833 24 ” 1834 16 ” —- 133 From this table it appears that the number of suicides has gradually increased from six as high as twenty-four in eight years. The last year, it decreased to sixteen; and it is fervently hoped that this deduction may be maintained, and that the increase may not be so frightfully rapid as it appears to have been. It must, however, be taken into account, that the population was, in 1822, 51,113, and in 1834, 56,655. The police also are more active, and inquests are held more regularly. CHAPTER XIV. APPEARANCES PRESENTED AFTER DEATH IN THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE. Thickness of cranium—State of membranes and vessels of brain—Osseous excrescences—Appearances discovered in one thousand three hundred and thirty-three cases—Lesions of the lungs, heart, stomach, and intestines—Effect of long-continued indigestion. As in cases of insanity, the morbid appearances discovered in the bodies of suicides are varied and contradictory. Nothing has yet been detected which can lead the pathologist to a correct conclusion as to the nature of the organic change which precedes and accompanies the suicidal mania.