POISON LIQUOR.
DEATH-RATE IN U.S.A.
(BT cable—PKISS ASSOCIATION —COriBIGHT.) (AUSTRALIA X AND N.Z. CABL* ASSOCIATION^
(Received January oth, 9.5 p.m.)
NEW YORK, January 4,
The "New York World" states that statistics just published by the Department of Health disclose that 770 persons were killed by bad liquor in 1927. New York City had the greatest number of deaths for any year since the Volstead 'aw was enacted, and more than in any of the ten preceding wet years The rate of deaths due to alcoholism in 1927 was 13 per 100,000, or slightly more than the rate for measles in peak years.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19201, 6 January 1928, Page 7
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