SOME WONDERS WROUGHT BY PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

White Ribbon, Volume 27, Issue 317, 18 November 1921, Page 2

SOME WONDERS WROUGHT BY PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

To counteract numerous falsehoods published by the Liquor Party, here are some facts submitted to the Washington Fifteenth International Anti-Alco-holic Conference: — “In New York, according to the official statements of Dr. Royal S. Copeland. Health Commissioner for the city, there has been since the enactment of Prohibition an unprecedented decrease in deaths from tuberculosis, and the Secretary of the United Hospital Fund reports as follows: —‘Alcoholism has clogged our hospital systems with unnecessary cases of sickness and accidents. Physicians, nurses, equipment, time, space, and food have been preempted by alcoholics, while other patients have been denied admission.’ Recent figures gathered by the Hospital Fund show' that In New York City alone, thanjes to Prohibition, 7000 beds have been released. It is also recorded that 700 vacancies for tuberculosis patients are reported in the Departmental Hospital, and 300 vacancies in the private hospitals of New York since Prohibition became effective. From Chicago, the second largest city in \merica, came similar reports, as thus, on the authority of Dr. John Robertson: ‘Facts speak for themselves. We had 235 cases of alcoholic pneumonia in the County Hospital in September, 1917, and 71 in September, 1919.’ Th<? third largest city in America is Philadelphia, and thence came such facts as this: ‘The Philadelphia General Hospital, which cared for 2481 alcoholic patients in 1917, and 2326 in 1918, has closed its alcoholic wards.’ ” —From “Brotherhood” for April, 1921.