U.S.A. DRINKERS WARNED
THE TOLL OF ILLICIT LIQUOR.
By Tulegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
New York, Dec. 26.
The medical health officer of New York, Dr. Norris, warns the world’s wettest city: “If you must drink in this bootlegging area, do your drinking not more thau five minutes away from a doctor.”
The toll of dead, blinded and paralysed claimed by Christmas stimulants in other years was conspicuous by its absence this year. Dr Norris believes New York people drank more 'han formerly this year, but the liquor is now much better. Ono hundred, people were given hospital treatment as the result of excessive drinking in New York.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 5
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