HEALTHIER ENGLAND
COMPARATIVE FIGURES
EVIDENCE OF AN EXPERT
■Times" Cables.
(Received 17th February, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 16th February.
Many health problems remain, but tho English are soberer, healthier, and longer-lived, presenting ■ an amazing transformation compared with a century ago, said Sir George Newman, the Health Ministry's medical expert, in evidence before tho Licensing Commission He surveyed London's drinking habits oi ,two centuries, recalling that from 1720 to • 1770 deaths exceeded births owing to the orgy, of .spirit drinking, when gin was the "real grand destroyer," with a public house for every i 7 people, and when tavern signposts invited people to get drunk for a penny, dead drunk for twopence, with. straw on which to sleep off intoxicafion free. Sir George added that scientific evidence did not exist to prove that alcohol fortified resistance. No great surgeon could be better for alcohol. The witness held that cocktail drinking before dinner was undesirable from the medical viewpoint. Alcohol mortality figures1 were highest among innkeepers, cabdrivors, and . brewers. Alcoholism rendered its victims more susceptible to pneumonia and tuberculosis.
He said that lie believed the 'American idea of half-yearly medical' overhaul undesirable.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 17 February 1930, Page 10
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189HEALTHIER ENGLAND Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 17 February 1930, Page 10
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