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Can public health strategies tackle London’s rise in fatal violence?

BMJ 2018; 361 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k1578 (Published 06 April 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;361:k1578

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Re: Can public health strategies tackle London’s rise in fatal violence? A few questions to Cattermole and colleagues.

On the face of it the idea that “public health strategies” could tackle fatal violence seems attractive.

Q1. In your own county of Sufflok, has there been year on year increase in “fatal violence”?

Q2. Have you asked your county, in a paper submitted to an open meeting of the County Council, to allocate to your department of public health, a defined sum of money, to be spent by you, on strategies and tactics to cut fatal violence in your county?

Thank you
J K ANAND

Competing interests: No competing interests

18 April 2018
JK Anand
Retired doctor
Free spirit
Peterborough