SUICIDE LOCALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3193, 18 September 1917, Page 6

SUICIDE LOCALITIES

INTERESTING PROBLEM EXAMINED.

■Whv is it that people commit suwid* in one part of the; countrr more than, in another? asks the ''World's Work. That the "incidence" of suicide has a definite geographical distribution is broncht out by the statistical studies of iT&ick'L. Hoffman, of the Prudential Insurance Company. b^ Padfc S co°alt thlchancK are much greater that you will take vonr own life than: if you live on the Atlantic seahpard The meet euicidal citv of the TTmtcd. States is San Diego, California whidt had a euicide rate m 1915. of 63-3 per 00,000 people;, the least is Holy°ake Massachusetts, where the rate for the, aDe year was 3.1. In 100 cities the su, dde rate,for 1915 Vas 20.3 pet■ mMft people. Figures running back ten years show precisely the same order of precedence in different parts ot th° United States The eastern States have tna W rate^jm., IMO to 1914 it was MA -the southern States come next, and then the rate increases P™^ 5 one »oes west, reaching the highest rate on the Pacific coast, and m California, where people have a greater tendency to Ml themselves than anyXre else. Why is it that only 19_p« 100 000 took their own lives in. New_Tmk \&JS& SXpE S,f ■BE3E£¥sfe of steady-going people. ~ The^e.t =U2tSS>#j-g*£ tendency to self-murder.