ENGLAND AND ALCOHOL.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 3 April 1913, Page 25

ENGLAND AND ALCOHOL.

LAST YEAR’S DRINK BILL. Great Britain’s drink bill last year amounted to £161,553,330, a decrease on 'the previous year’s figures of £1,2 43,899. The expenditure per head of the population was £3 10s 9d. ■'

The “Times” in a leading article points out the remarkable increase in the drinking of whisky with meals as a result of the advocacy of this form of drinking by the medical profession.

“It is impossible to dogmatise on the drink question,” says the “Times.” The present race of Englishmen are the descendants of many generations of moderate drinkers; Englishmen are therefore what moderate drinking has made them- The world’s teetotal races always have fared badly whenever they have come into collision with moderate drinkers.”