Persons identified by a medical practitioner as suffering from a mental illness; they may be undergoing treatment, either at home or in an appropriate unit. Gibb and Woolnough's Grampian Study provides a useful discussion about some of these illnesses.
| Male | Female | Other | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crag / Broken Ground | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Farmland | 10 | 14 | 2 | 26 |
| Moorland / Upland | 9 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
| Not Specified | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Plantation (dense) | 8 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Urban | 23 | 14 | 6 | 43 |
| Water Margin | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Woodland / Parkland | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Total: | 63 | 37 | 11 | 111 |
| n | % | |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 16 | 14.4% |
| Fatality | 17 | 15.3% |
| Unhurt | 51 | 45.9% |
| No Trace | 13 | 11.7% |
| Minor Injury | 12 | 10.8% |
| Serious Injury | 2 | 1.8% |
This is significantly different from all the other categories on account of the high proportion of missing persons who were not found (‘no trace’); it is worth noting
that 9 of the 10 persons who were not found were male.
| n | |
|---|---|
| Habitation | 25 |
| Linear Feature | 6 |
| Not Found | 24 |
| Open Ground | 9 |
| Travel Aid | 28 |
| Trees | 13 |
| Water | 6 |
The locations at which missing persons in this category were found when missing in an urban environment were significantly different from the locations at which they were found when missing in other environments; no significant gender difference was found.
The following additional information was provided with regard to one incident for which the location was reported as ‘open ground’: found hiding in bushes.
| 10% | 0 Km |
| 20% | 0 Km |
| 30% | 0.1 Km |
| 40% | 0.5 Km |
| 50% | 1 Km |
| 60% | 1.7 Km |
| 70% | 2.3 Km |
| 80% | 7.3 Km |
| 90% | 12.3 Km |
| 100% | 150 Km |
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