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D Lester

Publications and source records attributed to D Lester.

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Effects of detoxification of domestic gas on suicide in The Netherlands.

Analysis of data from the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek in the Netherlands showed that the suicide rate by domestic gas dropped from 1958 to 1975 as the percentage of carbon monoxide in domestic gas was reduced. Suicide by all other methods rose more sharply during the latter part of this period, suggesting that people may have switched methods for suicide.

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Is there a natural suicide rate for a society?

It was argued that no society could be free of suicide. To test this, from published literature 27 social variables related to suicide were set to zero in the multiple regression equations, and the estimated suicide rate was observed to be positive and nonzero.

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