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At present (1983) some 160 per 100,000 or 1.6 per cent of the UK population are in NHS psychiatric hospitals. In a year only 40 per 100,000 or 1 in 4 are discharged, indicating that many inmates are long-stay residents.
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© 1984 John Fry, David Brooks and Ian McColl
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Fry, J., Brooks, D., McColl, I. (1984). Psychiatry. In: NHS Data Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5590-5_12
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