Show More Married Than Divorced Persons in in Suicides of Salt Lake Findings of Survey for Past Three Y Years Yeal ais s inDirect in Direct Opposition to National Conditions Conditions- ns' ns More 1 married persons commit suIcide than divorcees In Salt Lake City ity according to an analysis of the he statistics s for tor the last three years rears which h were complied compiled by the board of health This This' fact tact is in direct opposition to o the the findings findings of Dr Ruth RuthS S S Cavan ot of f the the- University of Chicago who recently UY co conducted ducted a n survey s r ry y ot suicides in the United States aud divorced ed th than determined that snore more n married persons killed themselves Of the 64 suicides here in the tho year three period d. d 25 w were married 19 were 13 ere vere widowed 3 were divorced and nn the stat status s of 4 t was unknown I 50 MEN SUICIDE rub m men n k killed themselves and 14 women took took their own own lives live tho the statistics showed two Sixty of the suicides es were white and two were colored Sul Suicides ldes in Irv In this city are nr most lIkely to oCCur occur between between the ages of 35 and 4 44 41 an in n analysis analysts of the figures figures' fig lg- ures' ures showed Twenty-one Twenty of the suicides were within this age range Th There re were 17 suicides between the 25 and 34 12 between 45 and 54 64 6 between 55 Go and 64 4 between 65 65 and 74 Z 2 between 20 0 and 24 1 between 15 16 and 19 18 and 1 over o tho the age of 75 iS i 1 was Firearms was as the means chosen ib by most ost of the Salt Lake suicides 24 4 of t total using guns gung to end their lives Swallowing corrosive substances was was was' next 11 It persons r choosing this method to end their existences es Inhaling poisonous gas was vas third with 7 l victims C Cutting and piercing instruments were used by 6 victims hanging and strangulation strangulation lation and taking solid or liquid poisons 6 5 veach each jumping from high place and drowning 2 2 each and other means me 2 2 Nearly half of the men Juen suicides shot themselves to death while hUe all allbut allbut allbut but 4 of or the women swallowed po MANY FACTORS INVOLVED Little significance was attached to marriage and divorce as a a. came aue au of b by by- Dr AL AJ Beeley head continued page Continued o page on 6 6 i MORE MARRIED MARRIED THAN DIVORCED IN S. S L. L SUICIDES Continued from page I 1 of t r the department of sociology of f tho University of Utah There are as many factors in- in in suicide as there are in human illness Dr Beeley declared and the tho Isolation of one fact from tho the context of ot such a work ork as Dr C Cavan's vans van's and its Us analysis Is apt to tobe tobe tobe be misleading Suicide in general is a shortsighted shortsighted short short- sighted method of or r meeting a crisis Dr Beeley said in defining the tho act It is a device resorted to by persons persons persons per per- sons who find it easy to meet Vleet their difficulties by running away a from I them Discussing a means of lowering the tho suicide rate in the United States which was per population in 1924 1024 Dr Beeley de declared declared do- do dared All children need to bo be taught to meet lifes life's crises no matter how serious with courage COMPLETES SURVEY Dr Beeley Deeley recently return to the University of or Utah from the University of or Chicago where he 10 completed a survey of juvenile suicides suicides suicides sui sui- in the United States He lie declared his researches convinced con con- vinced him that suicides among students are probably not 1 Information on student suicides I is i difficult to obtain and a great amount of or it is unreliable Dr Bee ley said We Ve have a great many moro more students today than wo we had twenty wenty years ago and it naturally naturally nat nat- foU follows ws that we have more student suicides but fr from rom m the data compiled it Jt appears that the proportion proportion proportion pro pro- portion or of suicides among students has not Inc Increased eased ed The survey survey of ot of j juvenile suicides suicides' which was ivas made by Dr Beeley Deeley and graduate students of ot the tIle University sity sUy of Chicago considered cases selected at random Our study developed several interesting facts which as yet have not been correlated Dr Beeley Deeley declared Among adults the professor said statistics show allow that between two and three times as many men I kill themselves as women But of or orthe tIle the cases of Juvenile suicides I 55 per cent were girls and 45 Percent per percent er cent were boys We Ve determined that the tIle reasons for their actions were in order these Love affairs illness domestic domestic domestic domes domes- tic difficulties in their families anxiety about work failure in and anxiety about school work STRESSES MENTAL HYGIENE In 22 23 out of ot the tile cases the tho boy or girl had expressed the intent to commit suicide before the actual act and some of them had fried tried it or threatened it before Dr Beeley Deeley said ald This Tills fact indicates the tile imperative imperative imperative impera impera- tive need for Intelligent mental hygiene hygiene hy hy- giene for children If It these children who first threatened or attempted suicide had been Intelligently intel dealt with by parents teachers or psychological clinics it seems reasonable reasonable rea rca to suppose that many of the suicides could have been pre pre- vented Most suicides are the result of ot mental depression either temporary or permanent which probably W could be cured by application of I proper mental hygiene Chronic depression is Js a dangerous symptom which should be called to the attention attention attention at at- of a psychopath 1st Dr Beeley criticised the ease with which children are able to obtain firearms or other means of committing suicide Our survey showed he said sald that In almost every case case where the child committed suicide by shooting the family pistol was used |