‘HARVEST OF SUICIDES’
UNITED STATES FIGURES New York, April 18. The “Save-a-Life” League, which studies means for preventing suicide, has announced that suicides in the United States in 1923 numbered 12,948. There were 8632 male and 4316 female victims, the oldest aged 97 and tho youngest six. The announcement states that sickness, poverty, loneliness, and remorse are the most frequent causes among adults. It estimates that 20 per epnt. of the total suicides were due to business failures, probably a third of the suicides are committed by the insane, another third being traceable to sex troubles. “As long as people continue this high pace of living,” the league declares, “wc cannot he surprised at an even greater harvest of suicides.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 177, 21 April 1924, Page 6
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