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Show ' 6,171. KILL SELVES IN 1920 t , Solf-Deetructlan Record of Previous Year-Is Broken by More Than 1,000 Cases. ' T New York. Suicides In the United - States during tho year of IIKM) tutm- V bored 0,17.1. Including 707 t'lilldrcn. 'members of -the Siue-a-Mfe 'league, were told here by Dr. 11. M. Warren president' of the lesgue. 1.' This uxcecded the figures of the pre- " " v)ous yenr by more tbnn 1,000 cares, ho wld, During the yenr 15,001 worn- i' . en died through self-destruction. This In a large Increase over the preceding jour. w The Incrensed percentage among women wns m-cribed to their entry In Commercial and political life. .The youngest sulcldo In the country , during the Inst year was live vears of nge, while the oldest wns 1011 More thau. 400 Millers have taken their -. ' lives since the termination ofNlhe ar, tho report Hlnled. |