VIOLENT DEATHS
LONG LIST OF CHRISTMAS TRAGEDIES (Rec. December 27, 7 p.m.) London, December 26. There has been an unusually long list of Christmas tragedies, with more than thirty deaths, mostly due to motoring smashes. Sydney, December 27. Eight persons met violent deaths in New South Wales yesterday, and two in Victoria. Dozens of others were injured. Four boys and a man were drowned, an agonising death in a burning building, and four fatalities in car smashes, complete the list. A motor-bus, tram, and car were involved in a remarkable smash in the city. Forty bus passengers had narrow escapes. Seven were injured. NEW YORK’S LIQUOR New York, December 26. New York’s medical health officer, Dr. Norris, warns the world’s wettest city that “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 years, was conspicuous by its absence this year. Dr. Norris believes that New Yorkers drank more than formerly this year, but the liquor is now much better.
A hundred people were given hospital treatment as the result of excessive drinking in New York.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 9
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