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The Different Incidence of Suicide in Eire and in England and Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

B. M. Barraclough
B. M. Barraclough*
Affiliation:
MRC Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 4PQ
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Abstract

This paper confirms previous findings that the incidence of suicide in England and Wales is greater than that in Eire, but shows that the incidence in 1968–70 was only twice as high, and not four times as stated in the official statistics.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 132 , Issue 1 , January 1978 , pp. 36 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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