Tokyo, Mar, 16.
The number of suicides has been greatly increasing in Tokyo since the earthquake of 1023, Last year there wore over 1,700 According to statistics just pub-Kshed by the Metropolitan, Police Board, 664 men and 557 women committed suicide in 1924, and 849 men and 687 women in 1925. The increase in the number of suicides in 1925 is attributed to the fact that immediately following the great earthquake the number of women greatly increased, thereby rendering it very difficult for men to find work.
Those who killed themselves by taking poison head the list; next comes those who sought their lives by hanging, drowning or under a train, Despondence over illness stands first on the list, as the cause of self-destruction, then comes mental derangement, disappointment in Jove, family' troubles. and dissipation.
As to ages, 20 to 25 year-old men and women head the list of suicides.
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