| Assigned or Supposed Causes of Suicide | Males | Females | Total |
| Losses in mining stocks, etc. | 20 | 2 | 22 |
| Insanity (Cause not stated) | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Intemperance (Cause Not Stated) | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| Incurable disease | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| Love | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Ill Treatment | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Religion | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Remorse for Murder | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Unknown (or not stated) | 24 | 3 | 27 |
| Total | 74 | 10 | 84 |
LOVE AND RELIGION
(Viz: Love 9, and religion 1), appear to have kept up their normal ratio as opposed to whisky and stock in California; religion emerging from the maelstrom of insanity as almost perfectly sane, having only aberration to cite."
From: Transactions of the California Medical Society, Volumes 8-11. Sacramento: H. S. Crocker & Co., 1878. Page 153
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