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Show LOW HOMICIDE RATE RECORDED IN 1920 NKW YORK, Feb. 4 The present so-called crime wave, in which murder plays so prominent a part, has been confined apparently to a few localities snd there ia no likelihood of it affecting af-fecting the records of the country a. a whole, according to figures furnished by the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, which is authority for the statement that the year 120 will go down in history as the most favorabie one on record in the matter of homicides homi-cides among insured wage e-'trners. These inntirane figures, it Is said, nearly always reflect conditions In the total population of the I nlted Htates and Canada, and It may therefore be expected that one of the feaures in the good general mortality record of 1)20 , will be a low homicide rate. Records in the industrial department j of the insurance company show that f I the datn rate for this cause for the period from January 1 to Itecemtwr M. i 190. reached the comparatively low i level of 5 5 per 100.000. representing a decline of over 10 per cent from me ( rat efor 191. which was f . 1 In the year 1S20, only one month. September, shows a mortality nrvord from the cause of death $4 pr 100.- 000 wh.ch m-aa equal to or In exrees ' I of that for the year 1919 f I per 100,- 000. S Therefore the murder wsve, at least, say the insurance statisticians, would ! appear to have been confined to a very ; short period as wU as a few localities. |