On  the  morning  on  which  the  writer  left  Petro-
grad his  attention  was  called  to  the  press  items  of  the
Imperial  University,  which  appeared  in  the  Birzhcvya
Viedomosti  for  that  day  (Sept.  9,  '15).  It  was  stated
that  the  medical  department  was  finding  great  diffi-
culty in  securing  bodies  for  the  dissection  rooms.  The
same  report  is  mentioned  from  other  places.  It  is  cus-
tomary to  send  bodies  of  persons  dying  on  the  streets,
if  they  are  not  asked  for,  to  the  medical  schools.  Dr.
Grigoriev  has  made  a  striking  chart  of  suicides  and
attempted  suicides  in  Petrograd  between  1906  and
1915.  The  curve  which  rises  to  a  great  height  after
1906  as  a  consequence,  it  is  alleged,  of  the  disillusion
which  followed  the  abortive  revolution  of  1905,  fell
abruptly  in  the  last  months  of  1912.  The  figures  are
as  follows :

"

1906  903 1  191 1  2962

1907  13771  i912  3I23

1908  • 2268J  1913 2614

1909  23791*1914  1523

1910  3196

*With  only  five  months  of  Prohibition.
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RUSSIAN     PROHIBITION

The  statistics  for  1914  and  the  six  months  of  1915
are  as  follows:


1914.             Men  Women
January               1  10         72

1915.        Men  Wo
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men
39
25
49

22

17
21

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was
war
half

February        ..114        65

February    ..
