Raleigh—With the 1924 suicide rate in America a little over 15 per 100,000 population, North Carolina lags far and happily behind with a rate of 3.9 per 200,000 population, according to figures for the State compiled by the State Board of Health. The suicide rate in Raleigh, however, was 6.5.
The highest suicide rate per 100,000 population was in San Diego, Cal., where it was 45.2. Strangely enough, San Francisco with 37.8 and Los Angeles with 32.8 were in second and third places, giving uncontested honors to California.
In North Carolina during 1924 there were 108 suicides, of which 94 were white persons, 13 negroes and one Indian. Sixty-four of the total number of suicides used firearms to kill themselves. Ten of the 13 negroes’ suicides used guns.
Asheville led the State during the period with seven suicides. Charlotte was second with four. In Greensboro, Hamlet, Rocky Mount, Raleigh, Salisbury and Winston-Salem, there were two suicides each. Kinston and High Point each had three suicides during the year.
From the front page of The Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., Thursday, August 6, 1925. In 2022 the North Carolina suicide rate was 14.4 per 100,000, according to USAFacts.org.
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