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Monthly Variation of Suicidal, Accidental and Undetermined Poisoning Deaths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

B. M. Barraclough  and
Susan J. White
B. M. Barraclough
Affiliation:
Graylingwel Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 4PQ
Susan J. White
Affiliation:
University College Hospital Medical School, 115 Gower Street, London WC1E 6AS
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Summary

Undetermined and accidental poisoning deaths in England and Wales between 1968 and 1974 did not show the same pattern of seasonal variation as suicides by poisoning.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 132 , Issue 3 , March 1978 , pp. 279 - 282
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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