PREVENTION OF SUICIDES.
RELIEF-GIVING CONFIDENCES
CORONER'S HUMANE'" WORK;
I/ONDON, Oct. 8.
An extraordinarily large number of in--tending suicides have taken advantage of ; , the offer of the Salford coroner, Mr, Stuart;. Roger, to lay ..their troubles before him instead of taking their lives. < ~ Mr. Roger, after : conducting many in- v--quests on suicides, came to the conclusion' that if perrons, could be induced to relate their troubles to a sympathetic listener A; they would ,in most case 3 endeavour to ■ make a ; fresh start". :.:■;•;/ .-■ : -oi:./;:f:;-' :^-: "f ."-. '"'People ■ are coming to see me at; sill hours of the day,". Mr. Roger told the Daily Mail. " Dozens of letters are arriving by each mail. Many of those I have ." interviewed were 'in a low mental state, , and would have undoubtedly committed suicide. I believe I have helped and persuaded them to change their minds." v'j "■ ----
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18533, 18 October 1923, Page 9
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