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Depression and Childhood Bereavement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Felix Brown*
Affiliation:
Hampstead General Hospital, London, N.W.3

Extract

This work was originally started because attention had been drawn to the high suicide rate in Hampstead. Geffen and Warren (1) originally reported this high rate. During the last ten years it has varied between 20 and 30 per 100,000 inhabitants (see Table I). It also compares with the suicide death rate of 10 per 100,000 for the whole community.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1961 

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