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Letter to the Editor
The millennium celebrations, deliberate self harm. Our experience
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Editor,—We undertook a survey of deliberate self harm and neuropsychiatric presentations to our accident and emergency department over the millennium period (15 December 1999 to14 January 2000). This was to see if the celebrations had any effect on the incidence of DSH and psychiatric illnesses presenting to our department.
The figures for deliberate self harm in 1999/00 were collected prospectively, and then …