[Suicide in Sanremo during the period of 1975-1990]

The aim of this study is to consider the quantity features and variations in time of suicide in Sanremo during the period 1975-1990. The authors have carefully analyzed the source of their data, reading through the Coroner's registers and excluding all those cases of doubtful interpretation where the suicidal intention was only suspected, but not proven. The authors take into account different aspects such as: sociodemographic variables (sex; age; civil state; educational level; social position; geographical origin); method variables and correlations with psychiatric illness.