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Feigned Attempts at Suicide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

David Nicolson*
Affiliation:
Her Majesty's Invalid Prison, Woking

Extract

That our convict prisons should be the theatres upon whose stage are enacted day by day a varied round of farces and burlesques of a more or less tragical significance, is a thought whose development may be interesting, or simply amusing, according to the direction in which our fancy for the time being leads us.

Type
Part 1.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1872 

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References

I am indebted to the Registrar General for informing me that the number of suicides in England anil Wales for the corresponding 10 years was 13,821; the average population being 20,987,086; this, however, includes all ages. Google Scholar

“Journ. of Ment. Science,” Oct., 1870. Google Scholar

See note, p. 262, vol. ii., “Analysis of Human Mind.” Ed. 1869. Google Scholar

“Journal of Mental Science,” Jan., 1870. Google Scholar

On Ment. Dis. Syd. Socy. Edit., p. 259. Google Scholar

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