1) Ass. professor of sociology, Brooklyn College, U.S.A.
2.
Source: W H O, Epidemiological and Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 14, No. 5, 1961, Geneva, pp. 145, 147, 149.
3.
3) (same source).
4.
Comparative Suicide Statistics, by KAREN DREYER, in: Danish Medical Bulletin, May 1959, p. 65.
5.
5) The WHO has no information about suicides in the Soviet Union, Soviet-controlled European countries (except Hungary), East Berlin or Communist China.
6.
Suicide, by Emile Durkheim, edited with an introduction by George Simpson, 1951, p. 48.
7.
Ibid., pr. 44.
8.
Ibid., p. 48.
9.
Ibid., p. 14.
10.
Ibid., p. 107.
11.
Ibid.
12.
Dreyer, ibid., p. 78.
13.
In a Swedish study on Attempted Suicide ("experience of five hundred cases at a general hospital", published in 1955 Dr. ETTLINGER compares the annual distribution of suicides and suicidal attempts in Stockholm in 1953; the suicide rate did go up in June.
14.
Durkheim, ibid., p. 209.
15.
Durkheim, ibid., p. 208.
16.
Ibid., p. 152.
17.
Ibid., p. 158.
18.
Facts about Denmark, Copenhagen1960.
19.
19) The significant role of the folk high schools in Danish culture will be dealt with later on in this article.
20.
Durkheim, ibid., p.259.
21.
Ibid., p.258.
22.
Suicide by Jack P. Gibbs, in Merton and Nisbet, Contemporary Social Problems, N.Y. 1961, p.244.
23.
23) I want to thank Miss Kirsten Rudfeld, social science analyst in the Labor Department of Copenhagen, for allowing me to use her statistical tables.
24.
Suicide in Great Copenhagen, 1956 by Kirsten Rudfeld, in: Sociologiske Meddelelser, a Danish sociological journal, V, 1, 1960; English summary, p. 58.
25.
World Almanac1961.
26.
Maurice Halbwachs , Les Causes du Suicide, Paris1930, p. 6; (my translation and all others from his work). Halbwachs was (my) professor of sociology at the Sorbonne before World War II; he died in a concentration camp in 1945.
27.
Ibid., p.192.
28.
Ibid., p. 193.
29.
Ibid., p. 179.
30.
Ibid., p. 182.
31.
Ibid., p. 6.
32.
Durkheim, Ibid., p. 161.
33.
An interesting comparison concerning the influence of the factor of occupation on the suicide rate may be found in the above mentioned study on " Attempted Suicide" in Stockholm.
34.
Family Living, Nov. 1954, p. 374.
35.
Kaare Svalastoga, Prestige Class and Mobility, Copenhagen1959, p. 42.
36.
Ibid., p. 379.
37.
37) Suicide in Denmark, by Herbert Hendin , M.D., in: Psychiatric Quarterly, July 1960, p. 6.
38.
Ibid., p. 14.
39.
Ibid., p. 7.
40.
Grundtvig's Church by Olaf Olsen, Copenhagen , no date, p. 12.
41.
41) Only 5 to 10 % of the population participate in religious services.
42.
Freedom and Welfare, Social Patterns in the Northern Countries of Europe, ed. by George R. Nelson, 1953, p. 520.
