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Show BBJ SUICIDES ON THE COAST BB An lnsurnnco paper, The Spectator BBJ, furnishes some Interesting statistics BB J " suicides In tho lehdlng cities of !tho United States. They show, for Instance, that Call-fornlan Call-fornlan cities head tho list. San Francisco, Fran-cisco, San Diego, and Sacrnmento como first. Next comes Hobokon. j Then we hnvo Los Angeles and Onk-'l land, with St. Louis between. Five I ! out of tho top seven nro California I cities, and their rates range from 31 i for Oakland to 50 for San Francisco as against 19. C for the entlro coun- BBJj try. What the truo explanation of BBJ this Is, cannot easily be Imagined, BBJ unless life on tho cottst is too stren- BB 110"s for tho nverago mortal. BHj The figures for tho entlro country j B show a gradual decrease In self mur-' BBi ler. Tho number of suicides per j Hj 100,000" population for 1012 was ,18.8 I BBJ an improvement an 1911, when it was ' BH, 19-0. The r"!o has fallen overy year , BBJ, since'; 190S, when It was 21.8 tho sue-1 i cesslvo ngurcs being 21.0, 19.7, 18.8. ' BB, Tho average rate for tho decennlum ' K 1902-11 wan 19 0 A reninrknb'o M Point brought out by tho statistics BBj is this that the Improvement Is found ' In the larger cities, with a population I K of 250,000 and over, while In tho sma'. H, ler cities the rate has Increased slight BBjj ly during tho yeim-s covered BBi It has been observed that snlc'dc BB; and business failures generally go to. BBJ gether, and that self destruction Is I BBj, more common during hard times. The Bji Improvement would, then. Indicate Bb' growing prosperity. Hut suicides can- BH not bo traced to hny ono causo. Ono BB' thing Is certnln, though. If men and BBJ women had n. better understanding of BB j their mission on earth and tho loss BBi they sustain by taking their own I'ves Bll they would bo hblo to bear the trials BK' of life with greater courage and fortl- BB tude, and not plunge headlong Into BB destruction. |
