SUICIDE EPIDEMIC
IN ETJSSIA. By Tnlosrapli—AijsqcliitjiiJi—OfeTiyrlSrlif. , "Times" and "Sun" Services. St, Petersburg, May G. .Tlio Council of Empire is raising £10,000 to combat the suicide epidemic. Tho Government is arranging ft series of lectures for persons thus mentally afflictcd. A cable message last moftth. stated:-*' "Suicide mania, is steadily growing ii> the 'Russian Army, hariiig in-cVftiifed by lSflncy cent, in seven years. The greater numW of those cases is connected with insanity cauEed by aWbolisw. T'tv.e lonely life. i.ii desolate places in Siberia., and the three years' service isi strange surroundings in Poland, where the language is unknown to him, predispose tho itus-sia.tt soldier to suicido mania.."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 7
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107SUICIDE EPIDEMIC Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 7
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