Suicide: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and Prevention

A Social Science Treatise.
W. WYNN WESTCOTT, M.B. Lond.
DEPUTY CORONER FOR CENTRAL MIDDLESEX.
Joint Author of the Extra Pharmacopœia.
LONDON: H. K. LEWIS, 136, GOWER STREET, W.C. 1885.
GEORGE DANFORD THOMAS, Esq., M.D., CORONER FOR CENTRAL MIDDLESEX,
THIS VOLUME IS
DEDICATED
WITH MUCH RESPECT AND ESTEEM
THE AUTHOR.
In preparing an Essay on Suicide, which I recently delivered before a Society of medical men in London, I found it impossible in the limited time at my disposal to do anything like justice to the gravity and importance of the subject.
The question is one well worthy of the earnest consideration of the community; indeed, it may be legitimately regarded as one of our Social Problems, as it involves matters which are intimately connected with our social organisation, and is with propriety embraced in our legislative enactments.