DEATHS FROM ALCOHOLISM.

White Ribbon, Volume 35, Issue 416, 18 March 1930, Page 5

DEATHS FROM ALCOHOLISM.

The figures furnished by the U.B.A. on the death-rate from alcoholism ur«* very illuminating. Even under Prohi bition partially enforced these figures show that the national alcohol deathrate has neve*- lx>en as high as during the saloon era. This means that a smaller pro)K>rtion of Americans is being killed by alcohol than before Prohibition. The States which have had long experience of Prohibition show lowest death-rate from alcoholism. North Dakota, an old Prohibition State, hail a death-rate of 9 per million. Eleven other old Prohibition States had an alcoholism death-rate of less than half the national rate. The wet States show largest alcoholic death-rate. Maryland, Montana, and New York are without Prohibition enforcement laws, anti Montana’s alcoholic death-rate is 81 per million, Maryland's 110 per million (almost three times that of IT S.A. as a whole). New York stands third, with a death-rate from alcohol of 71 per million. New York anti Maryland furnished more than 25 per cent, of all reported alcoholism deaths, with about 12 per cent, of the total population. One fact stands out writ large: Prohibition of alcoholic liquors tends to national health and longevity.