More than 5,000 persons die annually by their own hand in England and Wales, and there is reason to suppose that their number will increase as the age structure of the population changes (Swinscow, 1951). There is no doubt about the size of the problem of suicide or of its claims for attention.
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Alan Capstick (1960) studied this question.
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