WOOD ALCOHOL
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Permit a reference to Hie cable in your issue of yesterday concerning the number of deaths” in the United: States duo to drinking of wood alcohol. This statement, apparently official, should settle tho controversy as to the results of Prohibition in one ■direction. The total of 130 deaths caused ir. this way during the fir-si half of this year, whilst, serious, is very small iu comparison with those duo to alcoholism in the license days. Iu New York Oily -alone in 1916 tho number was 687, and iu 1917 it was 560. Your cable states that more than half the fatalities— sav seventy-five—occurred in New York. New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Well, the cities of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. had an alcoholism death roll in 1916 of 1,119. The position shows considerable improvement. more particularly as, according t» the cable, twenty-seven deaths only have occurred since the middle of January in the whole of tho United States.—-I am, etc., H. S. Adams. August 26.
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Evening Star, Issue 18057, 26 August 1922, Page 7
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