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A document prepared for the South Manchester District Health Authority

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Goldberg  and
Richard Gater
Richard Gater
Affiliation:
Mental Illness Research Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester M20 8LR
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Most common mental disorders - becoming anxious, distressed or depressed - are dealt with by family doctors. In order to be able to understand the situation in South Manchester, we start by comparing figures for all mental disorders here with the situation in the country as a whole (Table I). The figures in the vertical columns are like Russian dolls: each figure below is contained within the figure above it!

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 10 , October 1991 , pp. 593 - 595
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

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