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Show SAi FHCISCO AT DEAD OF THE LIST More Suicides in Coast Metropolis Than in Any Other American City of Like Population. WHAT THE FIGURES SHOW j' Of Six Cities' Where Suicides Are Most Frequent Five Are Located Lo-cated in California. Special lo The Tribune. NEW VOBK. July 5. Suicide has developed de-veloped In American cities In the last year, the Spectator, a Now York publication, publi-cation, shows in an article tomorrow. H Is stated that tho combined rate of one hundred American cities, which was "l.S per cent per 100,000 people in 1K0S and 1000, was only 10.7 last year. New York's suicide rate was IS per 100,000 population. One of the revelations Is the unaccountable unac-countable frequency of suicldo In the cities of sunny and not over-populated California. According to the Spectator's statistics there aro more suicides In San Francisco than In any other city In this country and It remains the greatest suicide sui-cide city of tho United Slates. Nor does the article say why it Is that of six cities of America where suicide has been most frequent in tho last ten years, live have been California cities. These cities. In tho order of their suicidal frequency, fre-quency, are San Francisco, San Diego. Sacramento, Los Angeles and Oakland. The table accompanying the article shows the suicide rale In twenty cities, the highest being San Francisco, with I-per I-per 1011.000. |