Police Along Waterfront and a Campaign by Pictures In view of the number of suicides recently reported, the Bureau of Social Affairs for Greater Shanghai i" taking section in the matter.
Conversations have been held with the officials of the Bureau of Public Safety and arrangements have been made whereby officers will be stationed along the waterfront to prevent young people from making away with themselves, In addition, special coloured posters have been exhibited all along the Nantao Bund warning the public not to throw away their lives. There depict the body of a young person floating on the river: another irl seen in the act of drowning her= self, while a policemen ig seen rushing' up from behind, calling out on must not die: You must go home." The meaning of the pictures can be understood without the words and, the Bureau of Social Affairs hopes, they will go far towards saving lives in future, The Bureau estimates that 15 per Ca. cent, of the suicides are due to financial reasons; 60 per cent. to domestic troubles; and the remai der to other causes.
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