BRANDY A CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION.
Dr. Jacques Bortillon, before the Statistical Society of Paris, has compared two maps of France, or one of which were graphically repro--sen ted the consumption of eau-de-vie in eac}i department; and 0 n the other the prevalence of consumption. The result indicated that consumption and brandy drinking so together. The relation indicated between the consumption of eau-de-vie and the prevalence of consumption was also supported by figures having reference tc occupation which M. BcrtilloE brought forward. Thus he found that the mortality from consumption among cabaretiers was much greater than that among shopkeepers leading otherwise the same existence, while railway workmen, with whom sobriety is compulsory, do not suffer from consumption to anything like the extent which the carmen, draymen, and cabmen suffer. The distribution of phthisis, according to, M. Bertillon, tells the same story, the attack-rate among adult males being much higher than that among adult females, though in youth, the figures are the same ; and it is the men, he says, who are mainly responsible for the consumption of alcohol in big citi«s.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 459, 24 April 1912, Page 7
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180BRANDY A CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 459, 24 April 1912, Page 7
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