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There was a constant rise in the suicide curve from January to the end of June, and a constant decline from June to the end of the first winter month. Durkheim, of Paris, and Dr. Gubski, of St. Petersburg, who are among the most recent investigators of the subject, assert that, so far as the seasonal distribution of suicides is concerned, the figures for Prussia hold good throughout Europe.
The researches of Durkheim and Gubski show that, after the period of childhood, the tendency to suicide increases steadily with advancing age.
Moreover, if heat were a predisposing cause of suicide, we should find the suicide rate of Europeans much higher in the tropics than it is in the north temperate zone; but such is not the case. Heat, therefore, as a possible cause, must be eliminated. Other writers, including Dr. Gubski, have called attention to the very close relation between suicide and light.
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