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As part of its campaign, the charity will place a memorial advert in the Observer every time there is a death.</p><p>"These numbers are horrific," said Frances Crook, director of the Howard League. "These are closed institutions. These deaths are happening away from the public eye. We need to scrutinise exactly what's going on in this shadowy, hidden world."</p><p>The figures reveal that more than 800 of the 1,979 male deaths and almost 300 of the 1,561 deaths among women over the 10-year period were from unnatural causes, including suicides and accidents. </p><p>These patients were largely middle-aged, with about half dying outside the hospital, either during home leave or during periods when they were absent without permission.</p><p>Anna Savage, from Thundersley, Essex, took the South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to court last year, arguing that it had taken insufficient care to protect her mother, who committed suicide after walking out of hospital. Hospitals must now take reasonable measures to avoid harm to patients who have been sectioned.</p><p>Paul Corry of Rethink, a mental health charity, said that the figures revealed a "hidden scandal". He added that many of the deaths attributed to natural causes could be prevented. </p><p>"We assume that because these people are being kept in so-called 'hospitals', whether they are secure or psychiatric, they are receiving a satisfactory level of physical care," he said. "This is often far from the case.</p><p>"Psychiatric hospitals have far fewer facilities than normal hospitals, so patients don't get the day-to-day help they need. In addition, transferring patients with serious health issues to normal hospitals can be very difficult, because doctors often don't want to have these people on their wards."</p><p>Helen Shaw, co-director of Inquest, which offers advice to bereaved families about deaths in custody, said the current investigation system into these deaths is "not fit for purpose".</p><p>"These deaths do not receive sufficient public scrutiny and contentious deaths are escaping any public scrutiny," she said. 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