WORLD'S WETTEST CITY
DRINKING IN NEW YORK CHRISTMAS CASUALTIES (Elec. To). Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received December 27, 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 26. New York's medical health officer, Dr. Norris, warns the world's wettest. city that "if you must drink in this boot-leg era, do your drinking not more than five minutes away from a doctor." Tho toll of dead, blinded, and paralysed claimed by Christmas stimulants in other years was conspicuous by its absence ibis year, Dr. Norris believes that New York people drank more than formerly this year, but that the liquor is now much better. One hundred people were given hospital treatment as a result of excessive drinking in New York.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 6
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114WORLD'S WETTEST CITY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 6
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