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Effects of the 1983 Mental Health Act on compulsory admissions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kate Sackett*
Affiliation:
All Saints Hospital, Birmingham, (previous address: Coney Hill Hospital, Gloucester)
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987

References

1 Winterson, M. J. & Barraclough, B. M. (1984) Effects of 1983 mental health legislation on compulsory admissions to a District General Hospital. Lancet,(1985); ii, 44.Google Scholar
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3 Darvill, D. & White, A. (1987) Effects of the 1983 Mental Health Act. Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 11, 136.Google Scholar
4 Gloucester Health Authority District Information Unit (1985) Food for Thought (a collection of statistical information 1984 data).Google Scholar
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