SOBERER BRITAIN
GREAT DECLINE IN DRUNKENNESS. Rugby, August 12. Official statistics for 1926 in England and Wales published to-day show considerable decrease in convictions for drunkeness. The number of convictions last year was 67.126, compaired with 188,877 in 1913. Striking points brought out in the report are as follows: Public houses have dwindled by one-third since 1895, but the number of clubs has doubled. Saturday is the most drunken day, and Sunday and Tuesday and Wednesday the most sober. There is a public house to every 489 persons, compared with one to every 370 persons in 1908. Drunkenness from methylated spirits has decreased 12 per cent, in the past year. Deaths from alcohol have dropped from 2,153 to 499 since 1913. The estimated decrease in the number of public houses in the present year will be 530.—British Official Wireless.
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Southland Times, Issue 20256, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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