ALCOHOLISM COST
slom A Year Lost (N.Z. Press Association) ■ WELLINGTON, Aug. 31. Alcoholism was costing New Zealand SlOrn a year through work time lost, the director of clinical service for the National Society on Alcoholism (Sir Charles Burns), told a meeting of the Wellington Rotary Club today. Sir Charles Burn's, who has been studying alcoholism for the last ten years, said about 3 per cent of the New Zealand population was suffering from the disease.
“Alcoholism is increasing rapidly and frequently, not only with middle-aged, and elderly people, but in teenagers also,” he said. “One in every hundred is born to become an alcoholic."
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32391, 2 September 1970, Page 8
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