Note 4 — RECENT LEGISLATION AGAINST THE DRINK EVIL.
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Perhaps for convenience of reference the figures heretofore found so startling may be repeated. Of 4,234 deaths collected by the British Medical Association, divided for reference into five classes—namely: a, total abstainers; b, habitually temperate; c, careless drinkers; d, free drinkers; e, habitual drunkards—the ages of death of those in each class were registered, together with the causes of death; and the average of death for each class computed with the following result:
Total abstainers lived on an average51.22years;
Habitually temperate lived on an average62.13"
Careless drinkers lived on an average59.67"
Free drinkers lived on an average57.59"
Habitual drunkards lived on an average52.03"
To cancel such a statement as this, some industry is required on the other side; at least a collection of 4,234 other cases. Anybody can say that a laboriously tabulated statement is false. But it requires patience to demonstrate it.