Yesterday, an individual named
Mottez, in despair through want, cut his throat."
* Flor?al 25, "several persons, deprived of any means of existence,
gave up in complete discouragement, and fell down with weakness and
exhaustion. . . . In the 'Gravilliers' section, two men were found
dead with inanition. . . . The peace officers report the decease
of several citizens; one cut his throat, while another was found dead
in his bed." Flor?al 28, "numbers of people sink down for lack of
something to eat; yesterday, a man was found dead and others exhausted
through want."
* Prairial 24, "Inspector Laignier states that the indigent are
compelled to seek nourishment in the piles of garbage on the corners."
* Messidor 1,[143] "the said Picard fell through weakness at ten
o'clock in the morning in the rue de la Loi, and was only brought to
at seven o'clock in the evening; he was carried to the hospital on a
hand-barrow."
* Messidor 11, "There is a report that the number of people trying to
drown themselves is so great that the nets at St. Cloud scarcely
suffice to drag them out of the water."
* Messidor 19, "A man was found on the corner of a street just dead
with hunger.
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