Drink and the Death Rate.
•■ AN EYE-OPENEB.
(From the London Daily Telegraph). The British Medical Association appointed a committee to make enquiries, in order to ascertain the average age of the different categories of drinkers — that is to say, those who refrain completely from alcoholic drink, those who indulge more or less in moderation, and those who drink to excess. This com* mittee has handed in its report. Its conclusions are drawn from 4234 deaths, which are divided into five categories of individuals, with the average of age attained by each: — 1. Total abstainers, 51 years 22 days; 2. Habitually temperate drinkers, 63 yrs 13 days; 3. Careless drinkers, 59 yrs 67 days; 4. Free drinkers, 57 yrs 59 days ; 5. Decidedly intemperate drinkers, 53 yrs 3 days. These figures-sliow, singularly enough, that those who reach the sho.rtes.t a^je are those who drink no alcohol whatever ; after them come the drunkards, who only exceed them by a trifle. The greatest average age is reached by those who drink moderately. —Bevue Scientifique.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 213, 9 March 1895, Page 2
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