WET NEW YORK
A DOCTOR’S WARNING. , United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at noon.) NEW YORK, Dec. 20. New York’s medical health officer, Dr Norris, warns the world’s wettest city: “If you must drink in this bootleg area do your drinking not more than five minutes away from a doctor.” The toll of dead, blinded and paraly.sed claimed by Christinas stimulants in other years was conspicuous by n,l iiem-e this year,. Norris believes that New York people drunk more than formerly this year, but that the liquoi is now much better. A hundred people were given hospital treatment as a result of excessive drinking in New York.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1929, Page 5
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109WET NEW YORK Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1929, Page 5
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