Attempt To Lower Silicide Rate
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright)
CAMBRIDGE, April 14.
In an attempt to lessen the number of suicides by university students in Cambridge, Britain’s Eastern Gas Board is hurrying to bring non-toxic natural gas into the city next year—a year earlier than expected.
Several colleges have been disturbed at the number of suicides by gas—in the last eight years, 31 students have committed suicide and 21 of these were gas poisonings. The Labour member of Parliament for Cambridge, Mr Robert Davies, was therefore asked about speeding up the conversion to natural gas. The natural gas, which will come from deposits in the North Sea, does not contain poisonous carbon monoxide. A senior tutor at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Mi G. Storey said today: “I and most other college senior tutors are greatly relieved that natural gas will arrive sooner.
a remedy to those types of suicides that are unpremediated.”
“I think its arrival will be
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31345, 15 April 1967, Page 13
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