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Title查瘋病人胡翠氏跳樓自殺
Short title胡翠氏跳樓自殺案
archiveID165
DateMonday 22 May 1944
Year1944
Author上海特別市第一警察局黃浦分局; 上海地方檢察署
Role (author of)Police investigation; reporting of non-natural death; witness interrogation; judicial inquest; medico-legal examination
Series Number/IDShanghai Municipal Archives
Box numberR44-2
File numberR44-2-3918
Number of pages17
Abstract

Dossier concerning Hu Cuishi (胡翠氏), a 39-year-old woman, who died in Shanghai on 22 May 1944 after jumping from a building. The police documentation explicitly describes her as a person suffering from 瘋病 and investigates the death as suicide. A medical report was obtained following the incident, and the body was subsequently transferred for formal judicial examination.

The police investigation records that Hu had suffered from what family members described as 瘋病 for nearly three years. On the morning of 22 May, she was outside the family residence with her daughter, Hu Qiuzhen (胡秋珍). Hu asked her daughter to go inside to fetch tea; when the daughter returned, her mother had disappeared. A search revealed Hu's body lying near the rear entrance of 321 Lane, Hankou Road (漢口路三二一弄後門口), with injuries resulting from the fall. The dossier contains the initial police death report, medical documentation, statements from Hu Qiuzhen and other witnesses or relatives, police correspondence, a judicial inquest, and a detailed examination of the corpse. The final medico-legal documentation attributes death to injuries sustained in the fall.

Comment

Predominantly handwritten Chinese documents on printed police and judicial forms. The archival heading is unusually explicit in identifying the deceased as a 瘋病人 (“person suffering from mental illness/madness”), and family testimony states that her condition had persisted for approximately three years. This terminology should be retained as a historical description rather than converted into a modern psychiatric diagnosis. The evidence indicates that Hu disappeared while her daughter briefly went inside the residence and was then found below the building; the police treated the incident as 跳樓自殺. The file is therefore particularly relevant to the study of the relationship between suicide, family care, and contemporary understandings of mental illness.

Keywords (en)suicide; suicide by jumping; fall from building; mental illness; insanity; psychiatric illness; women; family testimony; death investigation; inquest; corpse examination; forensic medicine; police investigation; Hankou Road
Keywords (fr)suicide; suicide par saut d'un bâtiment; chute d'un bâtiment; maladie mentale; folie; troubles mentaux; femmes; témoignage familial; enquête sur un décès; enquête judiciaire; examen du cadavre; médecine légale; enquête de police; Hankou Road
SubjectSuicide; mental illness; suicide by jumping; death investigation; forensic examination
Place of eventShanghai 上海
Year of event1944
LanguageChinese
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