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Monthly Variation of Suicide and Undetermined Death Compared

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

B. M. Barraclough
Affiliation:
MRC Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 4PQ
Susan J. White
Affiliation:
MRC Statistical Research & Services Unit, University College Hospital Medical School, 115 Gower Street, London WC1E 6AS

Summary

Undetermined deaths in England and Wales between 1968 and 1972 did not show the same pattern of seasonal variation as suicides.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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