Show MOST MOST SUICIDES IN THE WEST f. f ft Explained by Large Number of Health kS and Fortune Seekers Who Go to toI tor I r That Section of Country The most suicidal city In the United States States is San Diego Cal which had a afi fi suicidal rate in 1915 1015 of per t people tho the least is Holyoke Mass S where the rate for the same year was wag wast t BI 81 says Worlds World's Work In cities x the suicide rate for 1915 1015 was per r. r S people Figures running back ten years show precisely the same order or or- 5 der er of precedence In different parts of S the United States The eastern states S. T have bave the lowest rate rate from from 1910 1010 to S. S 1014 1914 it was the the southern states come next and then the rate Increases j S progressively as one goes west reach reach- K Ing the highest rate on the I coast and especially in California S i Certain explanations come Immedi- Immedi f to mind California attracts 1 J s' s many canny Invalids and despondency over their physical condition may increase the tho suicide percentage of the state 4 The Rocky mountain and Pacific states also draw thousands of men who are 1 seeking their fortunes fortunes and and a n large S. S proportion fall fail In the quest The East S and South are more settled in their theirS k S ways flY less tess subject to sudden business S and social upheavals and consequently more the home of people i S 5 01 The Vest West Is more adventurous and j 1 still attracts a considerable number t i. i 5 of people whose varying temperaments i varying fortunes might and easily explain ex- ex j- j I plain its greater tendency to BelfI self self- murder |