LIQUOR IN NEW YORK.
HEALTH OFFICER'S WARNING. (vXTTED P8.83S ASSOCIATION—BY BLBCTBIC TELEGBAJB —COPYSIGHT.) NEW YORE, December 26. New York's medical health officer, Dr. Norris, warns the -world's wettest city: "If you must drink in this bootleg era do your drinking not more than five minutes away from a doctor." The toll of dead, blinded, and paralysed claimed by Christmas stimulants in other vears was conspicuous by its absence this year. Dr. Norris believes that New York people drank more than formerly this year, but that the hquor is now much better. Altogether 1000 people were given hospital treatment as the result of excessive drinking in New York.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19813, 28 December 1929, Page 13
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