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Dementia: Suicide by drowning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Camilla Haw
Camilla Haw*
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St Andrew's Healthcare, Billing Road, Northampton NN1 5DG. Email: [email protected]
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 194 , Issue 6 , June 2009 , pp. 563 - 564
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2009 

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