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Feigned Attempts at Suicide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

David Nicolson
David Nicolson*
Affiliation:
Her Majesty's Invalid Prison, Woking
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That our convict prisons should be the theatres upon whose stage are enacted day by day a varied round of farces and burlesques of a more or less tragical significance, is a thought whose development may be interesting, or simply amusing, according to the direction in which our fancy for the time being leads us.

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Part 1.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 17 , Issue 80 , January 1872, pp. 484 - 499
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1872 

References

∗ I am indebted to the Registrar General for informing me that the number of suicides in England anil Wales for the corresponding 10 years was 13,821; the average population being 20,987,086; this, however, includes all ages. Google Scholar

∗ “Journ. of Ment. Science,” Oct., 1870. Google Scholar

∗ See note, p. 262, vol. ii., “Analysis of Human Mind.” Ed. 1869. Google Scholar

∗ “Journal of Mental Science,” Jan., 1870. Google Scholar

∗ On Ment. Dis. Syd. Socy. Edit., p. 259. Google Scholar

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