BAD LIQUOR DEATHS
NEW YORK'S RECORD \ (United Press Association.—Copyright.) NEW YOBK, 4th January. 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 any year since the Volstead law was enacted, and more than tho deaths in any of the ten preceding "wet" years. The rate of the deaths from alcoholism in 1927 was 13 per 100,000, or slightly ♦more than the rate for measles in the peak years.
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Evening Post, Volume 105, Issue 4, 6 January 1928, Page 7
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92BAD LIQUOR DEATHS Evening Post, Volume 105, Issue 4, 6 January 1928, Page 7
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