| Male | |
| Drowning | 6 |
| Suicides | 6 |
| Homicides | 6 |
| Killed by trains | 26 |
| Other accidental deaths | 18 |
| Due to natural causes | 25 |
| Total | 87 |
| Female | |
| Accidental | 1 |
| Homicide | 1 |
| Due to natural causes | 11 |
| Total | 13 |
| Grand total | 100 |
As I've said before, trains killed an astonishing number of people. Primarily men, it seems, although I've read a few reports over the years of women dying that way (which I didn't make notes of because they weren't Ainsworth women).
Not one female suicide, though.
Too bad they didn't expand on the suicides to show whether hanging was still the preferred method.
Source: "Heavy Death Report." Hobart Gazette 10 July 1908.
3 comments:
hi
i'm surprised about the suicide rate, not sure. seeing the klan march down 3rd is pretty freaky too. thanks again for all the cool history
jim
oops, meant to say not sure why on the suicide.
I'm glad you're enjoying it. Yeah, "freaky" is the word for that Klan parade. The photo I used was one of two taken of that same parade and donated to the Hobart Historical Society by a local newspaper. They are both in the Ku Klux Klan file at the Museum.
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