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Suicide in farmers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Aslög Malmberg ,
Sue Simkin  and
Keith Hawton
Aslög Malmberg*
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford
Sue Simkin
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford
Keith Hawton
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford
*
Aslög Malmberg, PO Box 650528, Benmore 2010. Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 175 , Issue 2 , August 1999 , pp. 103 - 105
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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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