BRITAIN AND LIQUOR.
SOME STRIKING POINTS. PUBLIC HOUSES DWINDLE. RUGBY, Aug. 14. Striking points brought out in official statistics are as follow —Publichouses in England and Wales have dwindled by a third since 1895, but the number of clubs has doubled. Convictions for drunkenness dropped nearly 8000 last year. Saturday is tlie most drunken day, and Sunday and Tuesday and Wednesday the most sober days. There is a publichouse to every 489 persons compared with one to every 370 persons in 1909. Drunkenness from methylated spirits has decreased 12 per cent, in the past year. Deaths from alcohol have dropped from 2153 to 499 since 1913. The estimated decrease in the number of publichouses in the present year will be 530.—British official wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 220, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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