Nanking, Jan. 15.
The frequency of suicides in the principal Chinese cities has caused the Ministry of the Interior to make Jo study of the question. In 1933, is reported, 1,604 persons—852 mer and 752 women—committed, o: at-
{tempted to commit suicide in 24 Chiese cities. Of these, 667 were prevented from taking their lives. Peking heads the lst with 339 suicides. followed by Canton, Shanghai, Hankow, and Changsha, in all of which the number exceeded 100.
The cause of suicide, ip the order Jot their influence, were. marital troubles, poverty, ill-health, unemployment, unrequited love, intention to escape from justice, failure to obtain parental consent to proposed marriages, business failures, ete. Most of the male suicides were above the age of thirty, while the worner, mostly were below that age—Reuter.
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