“…The age of the population, the role of economic difficulty, the distribution of the socioeconomic classes, and the size and rate of growth of (he communities have all been examined. Other work of a somewhat similar nature has been carried out in Oldham (Jennings and Lun, 1962), Bristol (Seager and Flood, 1965), Halifax (Ropschitz and Ovenstone, 1968), and Southend (Robin, Brooke, and Freeman-Browne, 1968). Stengel and Cook looked closely at the factors associated with different suicide rates in British towns and cities, which can remain surprisingly constant over a long period of time (Sainsbury, 1968).…”