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8
SUICIDES IN HAMPSTEAD 1950 - 1953
The Registrar General commenting on the statistics
of deaths for 1950 (H.M.S.O. 1954) drew attention to the fact
that in that year Hampstead had the highest rate for suicides,
namely 287 suicides per million of the population, followed by
Holborn with 270, Burnley 259, Eastbourne 258 and Westminster
257. This observation has attracted much attention in the
daily and local press and I therefore thought it would be of
interest to look into this problem in Hampstead.
The Registrar General's figures referred to the year
1950. Table 1 shows the crude death rates* and the number of
suicides for Hampstead, Westminster, Holborn and St. Pancras
for the year 1950, and for comparison the years 1951 and 1952.

x Crude death rate equals number of deaths from
suicide per million of population.