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Suicide in High Buildings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Paula H. Salmons
Paula H. Salmons*
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham, Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH
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When a psychiatric in-patient commits suicide by jumping out of the hospital building, the death is liable to attract Press attention and become public knowledge. In 1981, the psychiatric unit situated on the fifth floor of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham (UK) was closed by the Chairman of the District Health Authority on the advice of the coroner. This was a direct result of several in-patients committing suicide by jumping.

Type
Symposium on Suicide in Hospital
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 145 , Issue 5 , November 1984 , pp. 469 - 472
Copyright
Copyright © 1984 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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