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Suicide in Brighton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

S. Jacobson  and
D. M. Jacobson
S. Jacobson
Affiliation:
St. Francis, Lady Chichester and Brighton and Lewes Group; University of Sussex
D. M. Jacobson
Affiliation:
School of Applied Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex
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The County Borough of Brighton is a seaside town with a population at the 1971 census of 166,081. This population has fluctuated only slightly. In 1951, the total population was 156,486; in 1961 it was 163,159; in 1966 it was 159,510. Brighton's population contains a large percentage of elderly people; in 1966 there were 25 · 7 per cent of the population over the age of 60, and 18 · 8 per cent were over 65 years old, compared with 18 per cent over 60, and 12 per cent over 65 for England and Wales.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 563 , October 1972 , pp. 369 - 377
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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