Amid all tin* discussion of the conservation of natural resources and the protection of the public health, a fact reported from Worcester, Massachusetts, the largest no-license city in the world, is illuminating. Records of the alcoholic ward of the City Hospital show that in that ward from May 1 to October 1, 1907, the first five months of the last license year, there were 169 cases In a similar period of the no-license year, 1908, there were only 69 cases. v
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White Ribbon, Volume 15, Issue 171, 16 September 1909, Page 10
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