Manchester tops another survey

Besides many other things,it turns out that Manchester is the self harm capital of Europe.

The Network for International Collaboration on Evidence in Suicide Prevention has researched the statistics for hospital admissions for self-harm from eight European countries between 1989 and 2003 and found that

an average of 540 out of every 100,000 women in Manchester self-harmed each year. This was followed by Oxford, with 416 women per 100,000. The corresponding figures for men was 422 per 100,000 in Manchester and 416 per 100,000 in Oxford. These compare with 72 per 100,000 women and 64 per 100,000 men in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the country with the lowest rate.