Number of Suicides
Increasing Since Signing of Armistice According to Records of “Save A Life”
League. . . Living Conditions Alleged to Be Responsible for Over 5,000 Deaths
in America During 1919
Since the signing of the armistice there has been an unusual
number of suicides everywhere according to the report of the ”Save a Life
League.” In Germany, Russia, Syria and other foreign countries where the number
has been very large, the cause is attributed to despair, because of the unusual
living conditions brought about by the war. The report says that of the 5,112
deaths in the United States during 1919, the professions, the lawyers lead the
list of 43, of these 12 were judges, 35 were physicians, and 28 teachers, and
11 clergymen.
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