Show suicide rate without change new york the average suicide rate of eighty american cities for the year 1923 remained at per of population the 1922 figure i the spectator an insurance jo journal ur announced the paper pointed out that this reflected n nationwide prosperity san diego according to the statistics continued to have the highest proportion of suicides among the cities considered the rate there being the pacific coast generally as in former years had a high rate the journal said while vvhs ie in in cities of the lake region the rate way was low suicides were reported as particularly few in the coal and steel districts |